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[Dysphagia] Dementing elders
Thank you, Steve.
While on the subject, I believe that you have an association with either Haworth Press or Elder Abuse - am I right? For those who work with dysphagic elders, I wrote the article on dysphagia as a source of potential abuse in hospitals and long term care. Unfortunately, it's as true now as it was when I wrote it.
Irene
"Davies Steve (Gateshead Health NHS Trust)" <steve.davies@nhs.net> wrote:
agree with my whole heart, it may be me one day, did I say
one day!
Came across this definition
Definition of an Elder
"An Elder is a person who is still growing, still a learner,
still with potential, and whose life continues to have
within it, promise for and connection to the future. An
Elder is still in pursuit of happiness, joy and pleasure,
and her or his birthright to these remains intact. Moreover,
an Elder is a person who deserves respect and honor and
whose work is to synthesize wisdom from long life experience
and formulate this into a legacy for future generations."
-Barry Barkan, Live Oak Institute
Hope this is me
Steve
Steve Davies
Dysphagia Nurse Specialist
Jubilee Wing
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Gateshead
NE9 6SX
Tel: 0191 4453823
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:32:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Irene Campbell-Taylor <eripley@yahoo.com>
To: dysphagia@b9.com
Subject: [Dysphagia] Dementing elders
I must protest most strongly to the recent opinions expressed vis-a-vis regression to childhood in elders with dementing processes. To those of us who have worked extensively with such patients, it is objectionable in the extreme to contemplate that professionals are regarding elder individuals who have lived, worked, raised families, paid taxes, supported the current economy regarded as, in the way one elderly gentleman once told me about himself, "something unthinking attached to a diaper." He was diagnosed as having SDAT!
We owe our patients better than this. They are not infants, they are not to be infantilized, they are not to be regarded as unaware because, believe me, they are far more aware than anyone realizes.
I have spent many years teaching nurses NOT to speak to dementing elders as though they were infants. I teach medical students, and demonstrate to them that their patients with dementing illnesses are seniors worthy of respect and consideration. The agism that is rampant in society and, therefore, in medicine is deplorable and not to be supported in any way by those who purport to care for them. Think for a moment. What if it were your father or mother?
Dr I Campbell-Taylor
Clinical Neuroscientist
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