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 |
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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