Management Tips and Traps
Management Tips and Traps: Managing co-morbid disease in persons with dementia
Burden of chronic disease is greater for peoples with dementia.
The cornerstone of management for any complex condition requires the ability to learn new skills and initiate, organise and execute appropriate self-care and adhere to daily, often complex, therapy regimes. Cognitively impaired older adults with complex chronic comorbidities, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure and diabetes mellitus may lack the executive skills required to perform self-management tasks that facilitate optimal care.
This series of fact sheets provide information regarding tips and traps when seeking to manage co-morbid diseases in people with dementia including non-adherence to treatment regimes.
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Recommended Companion Readings
The following two journal articles are open access (free to read and distribute)
Learning Outcomes
Inquiry
- Be able to discuss the issues concerning the management and self-management of co-morbid diseases in people with dementia.
- Be able to name tips for the management and self-management of co-morbid diseases in people with dementia.
- Be able to identify traps in the management and self-management of co-morbid diseases in people with dementia.
Knowledge Translation Outcomes
Thinking
- Raising Awareness of issues related to the management and self-management of comorbid diseases in people with dementia
- Encouraging Agreement with the information regarding the management and self-management of comorbid diseases in people with dementia.
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