What is it about?
Interviews with clients at 6 months post visit to a Nurse-led Memory Clinic showed that the clients and carers did not recall much of the advice or information received at the visit. They associated the memory clinic visit with a 'memory test' - the ACE-III, and they used the results from the test to benchmark themselves against 'what is normal'.
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Why is it important?
This paper highlights how little client's and carers remember of a memory clinic visit and reinforce the need for structured decision making support at this important time. Client's were very interested in benchmarking themselves against others in the population.
Perspectives
I feel we can invest more time in researching the best approaches to providing advice and support at the time of a cognitive deficit diagnosis.
Christine Stirling
University of Tasmania
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This page is a summary of: A qualitative study of patients' experiences of a nurse-led memory clinic, Dementia, December 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1471301213512841.
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