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The Question No One Wants to Ask
April 10, 2014
The most asked question from families of those living with an advanced dementia (and often the one they really want to ask) is ‘if Mam or Dad has this –…
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Restrictive Intervention – Reducing its Use
April 10, 2014
We were all appalled and shocked by the revelations of abuse by staff at Winterbourne View, which prompted a national overhaul of the way we manage and support people with…
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Dental Tourists Stay in the UK (and it’s not Because of the Weather)
April 9, 2014
We recently treated a patient who had been abroad for implants. On examination, it was found that several recently fitted implants were mobile and the whole prosthesis had to be…
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Dementia Care: Therapeutic Interventions 2
April 4, 2014
Therapeutic interventions Interventions aimed at creating a consistent sense of identity You can help create a consistent sense of identity within the person living with a dementia by keeping the…
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Fruit and Vegetables by Numbers
April 4, 2014
The message of five a day is well recognised by both consumers and health professionals as one of the basics of healthy eating messages, so what should we make of…
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Do Patients Offer a New Hope?
April 4, 2014
How are they already involved? With our end of year returns almost complete, the new financial year brings a new challenge for Practices and we are facing tough times ahead.…
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Complex Characters, Challenging Care
April 3, 2014
Working with people who communicate via often-extreme behaviours, a traditional approach was to seek out the cause of the behaviour by observing what happened immediately beforehand. The cause of the…
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