Madness and mayhem: the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting

Mott, S.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 27(3): 102-112

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291
PMID: 9384009
Document Number: 478002
Demographic predictions indicate that there will be between 174,300 and 194,200 people in Australia experiencing dementia of the Alzheimer's type by the year 2006. At present, 60% of those who make up the resident population in nursing homes and aged-care units in psychiatric hospitals suffer from dementia. To explore the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting, a comprehensive review of the literature was undertaken and the results compared with the outcomes of an ethnographic study of a unit for confused older people.

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