Introducing Sandra: A ProPatient with a special interest in Dementia

Sandra talks about how difficult it can be to get a patient with dementia to eat and drink. Particularly if they have challenging behaviour. Sandra gives advise on ways to get around challenging behaviour and encouraging eating.

Sandra talks about how mum got annoyed by the questions being asked when people were doing dementia screening tests and mental state testing questions.

Sandra talks about being angry about the difficulty that acute hospitals have to provide resources for dementia care.

Sandra is a ProPatient with a special interest in dementia care.

Sandra talks about the need for more specialist dementia nurses as well as more ward time spent with demonise patients. Kind