Revue de l'infirmière
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Resource and research memory centres (CMRRs) cater for patients with a cognitive disorder, usually with memory loss. Their aim is to establish if there is an underlying neurodegenerative pathology, Alzheimer's disease or related syndrome.
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Cognitive disorders with memory loss are common among the patients of general practitioners. In collaboration with an outpatient diagnosis service and referral memory consultations, they are involved in the diagnosis, the implementation and the follow-up of suitable care for the patient and their family.
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Revue de l'infirmière · Jan 2017
[Therapeutic education for carers, an innovative concept to prevent burnout].
Some hospital teams have chosen to use therapeutic education with carers in order to prevent their burnout. Nurses trained in therapeutic patient education perform a particularly innovative role by helping to relieve the carer's 'burden'.
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Behavioural disorders linked to dementia are common. The intertwining of psychiatric and neurodegenerative pathologies means caregivers are faced with complex situations on a daily basis. The expertise of the geriatric psychiatry teams helps to guide the clinical reasoning and to find the best nursing approach in order to understand the symptom and support the patient.
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A patient aged 32 who had been living with her partner for a few years, is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. They both needed to understand and adapt. The caregivers had a frontline role in the multidisciplinary care but addressing the impact on the patient's sexual quality of life remains difficult. The patient describes her experience and how harmony and desire were re-established.