title: A whole-systems approach for dementia careDrawing on his 30 years' experience as a nurse, Trevor Adams has written a book on dementia care nursing. Here, he refers to its contents to explain why nurses should look beyond person-centred and relationship-centred care to consider wider social, psychological and biological systems that help construct a more rounded picture of the needs of people with dementia.
abstract: The nursing care of people with dementia is carried out mainly by general and mental health nurses, and takes place in a wide variety of settings such as accident and emergency units, orthopaedic wards, people's homes, long- stay wards and day hospitals ( care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) 2005 ). My own experience of nursing people with dementia is as a mental health nurse, but my mother developed dementia and this has enabled me to see dementia care nursing from a different angle.
authors.affiliation: University of Surrey.
authors.forename: Trevor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adams