Dr Eamon Fottrell - Pavilion Health Today https://pavilionhealthtoday.com Supporting healthcare professionals to deliver the best patient care Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:30:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pavilionhealthtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/android-chrome-384x384-1-100x100.png Dr Eamon Fottrell - Pavilion Health Today https://pavilionhealthtoday.com 32 32 Community mental health teams: Can they leaven the load of older adult psychiatry in care homes? https://pavilionhealthtoday.com/gm/community-mental-health-teams-can-they-leaven-the-load-of-older-adult-psychiatry-in-care-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=community-mental-health-teams-can-they-leaven-the-load-of-older-adult-psychiatry-in-care-homes Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pavilionhealthtoday.com/uncategorized/community-mental-health-teams-can-they-leaven-the-load-of-older-adult-psychiatry-in-care-homes/

A consultation document is soon to be published that will give hotel-style ratings to care homes for older people. While this change is promising, Dr Eamon Fottrell illustrates by example how older people with psychiatric problems and their carers can benefit through the involvement of community mental health teams, and challenges GPs to become actively involved with such patients living in residential and nursing care.

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]]> Preventing or delaying the effects of Alzheimer’s disease https://pavilionhealthtoday.com/gm/preventing-or-delaying-the-effects-of-alzheimers-disease/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preventing-or-delaying-the-effects-of-alzheimers-disease Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pavilionhealthtoday.com/uncategorized/preventing-or-delaying-the-effects-of-alzheimers-disease/ Alzheimer's disease seems to share the same vascular risk factors as vascular dementia and cardiovasculardisease. The evidence for this, although far from complete, continues to grow, and the potential toprevent and control Alzheimer's disease should add increased urgency and enthusiasm to the controlof shared risk factors. Research also suggests that the brain has considerable cognitive recuperativepotential, which is maximised by control of vascular risk factors. Doctors and health-care professionalsshould be more active in informing and educating those at risk, from middle-age onwards, of thepotential benefits of controlling these common risk factors and adoption of healthier life styles. Patientsmust be involved in their own health care to enable them to attain optimum health.

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