Dementia and the home healthcare clinician.
As record number of individuals move into their retirement years, home healthcare clinicians are witnessing an increase in the number of patients and families struggling to cope with the complex symptoms of dementia. Unlike other terminal conditions such as cancer, the course of this terminal and debilitating disease can span several decades. Home healthcare clinicians will be caring for greater numbers of these patients and their families in the community.
Katherine A. Marshall, DNPc, PMHCNS-BC, is an Assistant Professor, McAuley School of Nursing, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan.
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