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Institutionalization risk amongst people with dementia supported by family carers in a Scottish city
Autor:
Janice E. Whittick, Kevin McKee, David S. Gordon, W J Mutch, Ian Philp, Brian R. Ballinger, Gillian K. Armstrong, Mary Gilhooly
Publikováno v:
Aging & Mental Health. 1:339-345
We studied 114 community-resident demented older people living at home with the support of a family carer and a matched sample of 114 non-demented older people to determine the factors predictive of institutionalization. We interviewed elders and car
Autor:
Paul Spicker, David S. Gordon, Brian R. Ballinger, Philip Seed, Nancy McWILLIAM, W J Mutch, Brenda Gillies
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 12:642-647
The Tayside Profile for Dementia Planning is an instrument designed to obtain data for population needs assessment and planning. It provides a brief tool to collect a minimum dataset by non-specialists. Third-party informants-informal carers or invol
Autor:
Brenda Gillies, Paul Spicker, Nancy McWILLIAM, Brian R. Ballinger, David S. Gordon, W J Mutch, Philip Seed
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 12:636-641
A census of all relevant services in an area can be used to identify people with mental impairment suggestive of dementia. Two censuses in Tayside, Scotland, were used to test the effectiveness of this method. False positives accounted for 12% of ret
Autor:
Janice E. Whittick, David S. Gordon, Ian Philp, P Meldrum, Kevin McKee, Mary Gilhooly, Brian R. Ballinger, W J Mutch
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
Objective: To measure and compare perceived financial burden, use of services, and perceived unmet service needs of supporters of demented and non-demented elderly people. Design: Comparison study of age and sex matched demented and non-demented elde
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Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 9:131-142
The effects of time after stroke, icing, splinting and transfer techniques on quadriceps muscle tone were measured with the Wartenberg pendulum test. The measure used was R2, which represents the ratio of the amplitude of the first swing to the diffe
Autor:
W J Mutch
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 55:36-40
A questionnaire on the development of specialist clinics was distributed to the members of the Association of British Neurologists and completed by 104 members (85 consultants). Half of the respondents already ran a specialist clinic. The same propor
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 6:253-258
There is considerable debate about who should provide long-term institutional care for the elderly. We describe and compare care in three private nursing homes, 12 long-term geriatric and 10 psychogeriatric hospital wards which service a Scottish cit
Publikováno v:
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH. 3(6)
Several studies in singletons have found an association between low birth weight and increased plasma concentrations of clotting factors in adult life. Twins provide an opportunity to assess the possible contribution of genetic factors to this associ
Autor:
W J Mutch, C.T.C. Lien
Publikováno v:
Scottish medical journal. 42(5)
Parkinson's disease is characterised by a variable combination of tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and impaired righting reflexes. The cumulative life-time risk is one in 40. Levodopa remains the single most effective treatment in older patients, and t
Autor:
David S. Gordon, Mary M. L. Gilhooly, Ian Philp, W J Mutch, Janice E. Whittick, Brian B. Ballinger, Kevin J. McKee
Publikováno v:
The British journal of clinical psychology. 36(3)
Research into supporters of elderly people with dementia has a brief but significant history. Initially, research sought to establish the nature and extent of the distress that supporters endured in the fulfilment of their caring role. More recently,