Transforming dementia care on the wards.

The Tameside Hospital Admiral Nursing Service, which I am part of, was introduced as a direct result of a complaint raised by the carer of a patient living with dementia.

Transforming dementia care.

The daughter of an older woman with dementia approached my trust, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to seek care for her mother. The daughter was aware of community-based Admiral Nursing services and believed providing the service in hospital would meet the gap in specialist provision. The trust acknowledged this and sought to address the gap.

A pilot randomized controlled trial of sleep therapy in Parkinson's disease: effect on patients and caregivers.

Objective: By means of a controlled trial, to investigate the efficacy, tolerability and feasibility of a multi-component sleep therapy intervention versus basic sleep hygiene education in PD patients with sleep disturbances and their live-in carers.

Methods: Patient-carer dyads were randomised to either of the two interventions. Quantitative measures of sleep, psychiatric and overall functioning were administered at baseline and two weeks after the intervention to patients and carers.