CARE AND PREVENTION OF DEMENTIA AMONG THE OLDER PEOPLE; NURSING POINT OF VIEW
Kipkoech, Anthony (2020)
Kipkoech, Anthony
2020
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To achieve long-lasting and successful care as well as prevention of dementia among the older people, it is a great benefit for the public to have a general knowledge about dementia for example what is dementia, symptoms, risk factors, etc. as this will help them prevent dementia by avoiding its risk factors e.g., Changing their lifestyles before dementia occur and be able to provide care for their loved one who is already affected by dementia. For nurses, nurse students, and other healthcare professionals to be able to provide care for older people with dementia, they should have good competence and knowledge about dementia.
The purpose of this thesis was to describe care and prevention of dementia among the older people from the nursing point of view and the goal was to guide nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals when providing care and prevention of dementia among the older people in any healthcare settings.
The data used to establish this study were sourced from CINAHL Ebsco e-journals and Science Direct Elsevier e-journals all from Lapland University of Applied Sciences Library databases. The research method used was descriptive literature review whereby 11 articles were found and were used to develop this work. An adapted version of the inductive content analysis method was used to analyze the data.
The findings disclosed that nurses play various and vital roles such as ensuring the quality of life, managing behavioral symptoms, solving nutrition problems, medication management, palliative care as well as helping families for older people. In addition, the effective methods of preventing dementia entail; physical exercise, dietary, psychosocial, and health promotion targeting change in lifestyles. Therefore, people should be advised to adopt and participate in these methods to avoid dementia since dementia have no specific cure for dementia.
The purpose of this thesis was to describe care and prevention of dementia among the older people from the nursing point of view and the goal was to guide nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals when providing care and prevention of dementia among the older people in any healthcare settings.
The data used to establish this study were sourced from CINAHL Ebsco e-journals and Science Direct Elsevier e-journals all from Lapland University of Applied Sciences Library databases. The research method used was descriptive literature review whereby 11 articles were found and were used to develop this work. An adapted version of the inductive content analysis method was used to analyze the data.
The findings disclosed that nurses play various and vital roles such as ensuring the quality of life, managing behavioral symptoms, solving nutrition problems, medication management, palliative care as well as helping families for older people. In addition, the effective methods of preventing dementia entail; physical exercise, dietary, psychosocial, and health promotion targeting change in lifestyles. Therefore, people should be advised to adopt and participate in these methods to avoid dementia since dementia have no specific cure for dementia.