Dementia victims ‘written off by families’
Relatives and care staff found to be too pessimistic about activities sufferers can manage which could worse the condition
- Alzheimer’s disease sufferers worse when their families give up on them
- Families and care home staff believe sufferers cannot do leisure activities
- Researchers found dementia sufferers benefited from regular stimulation
- Patients suffer greater agitation when the illness progresses
Elderly people with dementia are too readily written off by relatives and carers, research suggests.
A study of care home residents found staff and families were overly-pessimistic about the types of activities that relations and patients were capable off.
This could lower quality of life, an Australian medical conference heard.
