Support to live positively with dementia

“Barriers to Helping Patients Live Well

There is a recent surge of new diagnostic modalities and therapeutic options for many neurologic conditions. As a result and combined with the time constraints and regulatory requirements that neurologists (and all health care professionals) face, this can create situations in which detailed disease management, rather than the healing potential within the provider-patient relationship, directs clinical encounters. For conditions without effective treatment or cure, placing clinical interactions firmly within such a therapeutic relationship may be especially important.”

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Published by Kate Swaffer (she/her) Kaurna Country

Striving to be a better person, to be kind, and to leave the world a better place. Living and working on Kaurna Country. Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Friend. Author; Researcher; Humanitarian; International Speaker. My work includes research and campaigning for human rights for all, for dementia as a disability, and for rehabilitation for all people with dementia. I've been very active globally in the new narrative of dementia, and my research now also includes a focus on the need for redress for abuse, violence and neglect in aged and dementia care, and dementia to be managed as a condition causing disability. @KateSwaffer https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-swaffer Co-founder, Dementia Alliance International @DementiaAllianc About DAI: www.infodai.org Join: www.joindai.org

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