TY - JOUR
T1 - Living with dementia
T2 - An interdisciplinary, experimental seminar for medical, nursing, and social work students
AU - Siegler, Eugenia L.
AU - Cotter, Valerie T.
AU - Goldberg-Glen, Robin
AU - Brice, Nicole
AU - Ellis, Nancy B.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - All too often, dementia remains an abstraction for students in the health professions. Although social work students focus on environmental and family influences, nursing and medical students usually encounter a strong educational focus on hospital care, which limits the opportunity to understand the full impact of a dementing illness on patient and family. An interdisciplinary, experiential course was designed to include an opportunity to spend time with dementia patients and their caregivers in non-medical settings. This course had two goals. The first was to allow students to witness.
AB - All too often, dementia remains an abstraction for students in the health professions. Although social work students focus on environmental and family influences, nursing and medical students usually encounter a strong educational focus on hospital care, which limits the opportunity to understand the full impact of a dementing illness on patient and family. An interdisciplinary, experiential course was designed to include an opportunity to spend time with dementia patients and their caregivers in non-medical settings. This course had two goals. The first was to allow students to witness.
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U2 - 10.1300/J021v16n04_02
DO - 10.1300/J021v16n04_02
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012464307
SN - 0270-1960
VL - 16
SP - 3
EP - 13
JO - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
JF - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
IS - 4
ER -