Psychiatry – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Mild Cognitive Impairment, dementia, and a happy patient.

For the most, I think I know what I am talking about when I talk about dementia.

Three days, 15 points and just starting to recover from the British Geriatric Society Autumn Conference

For the most, this was people showing-off their successes, how many older people they had saved from peril (mostly keeping them out of hospital), how many standard deviations from the mean their intervention had generated and so on.

Overthink

Now we are learning that language, behaviour, how we behave and relate to people living with dementia is probably more important than the medicine;

Physical and Mental Health

As a generic

Mix

Corporeal

And

Evanescent;

CRP – aka un-person-centred care

72 hours after admission Nigel has become distressed. Anxious and fearful, he wants to leave the hospital, he can’t understand why we won’t let him go, he feels we are trying to harm him, poison him, deprive him of his liberty.