It's estimated that a fifth of the population will develop some form of dementia by the time they're seventy.
Joanne Schofield works as a clinical nurse manager who cares for the elderly at Oakdene, a continuing care unit for people near Warrington and has won awards for her caring strategy. She is able to manage 'difficult' patients using no more staff than a normal ward and it is all down to noting the exact patterns of behaviour and needs of patients. So why isn't her approach being adopted elsewhere?
Joanne Schofield and Professor Murna Downs, Chair in Dementia Studies and Head of Bradford Dementia Group join Jenni to look at the quality of nursing care offered to sufferers, and talk about why a new approach to patients at a Warrington hospital has brought them a better quality of life.
