Dementia and Cancer
This course provides you with a greater understanding and helps you recognise how a diagnosis of dementia and delirium assessment, treatment, and care impacts on those with the condition, their families and those caring for them.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the early symptoms of dementia and delirium to improve their knowledge and skills to care for patients with the conditions.
- Highlight the ethical implications of dementia and cancer on treatment and care in an oncology setting.
- Discuss how person-centred care and knowledge of the person will improve their well-being.
- Highlight how factors such as the environment and communication may impact a person’s behaviour.
- Identify the impact of caring on families and the importance of supporting and involving them in discussions around the treatment and care.
- Discuss the importance of Advance Care Plans and the lasting power of attorneys in planning future care and treatment.
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Lorraine Burgess
Lorraine has been a Macmillan Dementia Consultant Nurse and Queen’s Nurse at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust for 12 years. She has led research on dementia and cancer care, publishing widely and earning multiple awards, including Nursing Times Nurse of the Year (2015) and Dementia and Surgery Winner (2023). A frequent media contributor, she has been interviewed on BBC Look North West, Radio 4, and The Lorraine Kelly Show. Her qualifications span nursing, dementia studies, gerontology, and education, with over 40 years of clinical experience in general and mental health nursing.
