Abstract
There are approximately 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK and these numbers are set to rise to over 1 million in the next five years (Alzheimer’s Society, 2019a). Dementia is a medical term that is used to describe a number of progressive cognitive diseases which includes Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, dementia with lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia (Mitchell & Agnelli, 2015).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 18-19 |
| No. | 28 |
| Specialist publication | Reflections |
| Publisher | Queen's University Belfast |
| Publication status | Published - 01 Jun 2019 |
Keywords
- Dementia
- Education
- Higher Education
- Nurses
- Nursing