Fear of flying, reviewed: An example of evidence-based old age psychiatry
Autor: | Gianetta Rands |
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Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Zdroj: | Psychiatric Bulletin. 26:188-190 |
ISSN: | 1472-1473 0955-6036 |
Popis: | ‘Doctor, would it be alright to take mum to Cyprus for a family wedding?’ In a cosmopolitan city such as London hardly a month goes by without hearing a similar sort of query. If ‘mum’ has dementia I tend to advise the family against flying. This advice is based on anecdotal observations from past clinical practice. I have witnessed a number of patients experience significant deterioration in cognition following flying. While disorientation in unfamiliar environments may explain some of the difficulties in travelling for a person with dementia, as illustrated by John Bayley in Iris (1998), this may not be the only explanation. On this occasion, I decided to use evidence-based practice to review the situation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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