What biopsychosocial risks should be considered in dementia care?
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What biopsychosocial risks should be considered in dementia care?

Zena Aldridge Independent dementia nurse and consultant

Mental health nurses proactively identifying risk factors enables a more holistic approach to supporting people living with dementia

A risk factor is defined as ‘a personal or contextual characteristic or circumstance that is linked to a negative event and that either causes or facilitates the event to occur’, according to the Department of Health (DH 2009).

Mental Health Practice. 27, 6, 18-19. doi: 10.7748/mhp.27.6.18.s8

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