In this commentary, we discuss the origins of hopelessness in dementia, the World Health Organization’s six-stage framework of dementia care, and barriers to “normalizing” the experience of dementia: https://t.co/rhGEBe3QRr
Currently, a diagnosis of dementia evokes hopelessness, and society provides few resources or systematic support for caregivers or for demented patients. How should clinicians respond to patients with dementia who feel that life is not worth living? https:
Currently, a diagnosis of dementia evokes hopelessness in the afflicted, and society provides few resources or systematic support for caregivers or for demented patients. How can clinicians support patients who feel that life is not worth living? https://t
A dementia diagnosis often provokes feelings of hopelessness, in part because the disease is so stigmatized. Clinicians can unknowingly perpetuate this stigma by assocating loss of intellect with loss of personhood https://t.co/Qf9S39OdcN