Partnerships in Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care: Practice Perspectives, 1st Edition

John Keady is Professor of Older People’s Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester/Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust, UK Dr Charlotte L. Clarke is Professor of Nursing Practice Development Research and Head, Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Research Unit, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University. She has a long-standing interest in dementia care that has recently encompassed a major national study on risk and dementia. Sean Page is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Manchester Memory Clinic and Honorary Lecturer in the School of Nursing at Manchester University. For over a decade he has worked with people with dementia at all stages and phases of the condition. Sean has a particular interest in the social perspective of anti-dementia drugs, the development of professional nursing practice in memory clinic settings and challenging behaviour in dementia.