Clinical Review
Home Care for Patients with Dementia
Collaborative Quality Improvement
Fed Pract. 2004 January;21(1):13
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Ladislav Volicer, MD, PhD, Peter D. Mills, PhD, Ann C. Hurley, RN, DNSc, and Victoria Warden, RN
Dr. Volicer is the clinical director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA and a professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Mills is the associate director of the VHA Center for Learning and Improvement of Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT. At the time of this writing, Dr. Hurley was the associate director for education at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital GRECC. Currently, she is the executive director of the Center for Excellence in Nursing Practice at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an adjunct professor of nursing at the Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences School of Nursing, both in Boston, MA. Ms. Warden is a nursing research health scientist at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital GRECC.
While patients with dementia often do best in a familiar setting, providing home care to such patients presents many challenges. This article describes how teams from VA sites across the country put their heads together to work out some of these issues.