Measuring awareness in people with dementia: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:People with dementia (PwD) vary in the degree of awareness they show about their situation, both generally concerning the diagnosis and more specifically around certain aspects or objects of awareness such as awareness of memory impairment, altered daily activities or social functioning. The extent of awareness or lack of awareness has consequences for well-being of PwD and carers, impacting on rates of hospital admission, institutionalization, mood, adjustment to diagnosis, outcomes from intervention and carer burden. An accurate estimation of a person's awareness could therefore be useful in a clinical setting to support PwD and their carers in making appropriate choices for health and care decisions, and could facilitate safe management by health care professionals, e.g. in a

SUBMITTER: Alexander CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6610918 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature