Nurses and Community Workers Go into Overdrive to Combat Harsh End to UK Winter

As parts of UK remain snow clad with flights being cancelled and highways being shut off, there’s no rest for the nurses. Nurses and health workers battled through the snow to get to their work places and keep UK’s Health Infrastructure up and running. Many nurses stayed overnight in their hospitals and surgeries so that they could attend their following shifts and the patients did not have to suffer any hardships due to the adverse weather conditions. In an interview with a major media network a Paediatric Nurse who stayed over at her hospital stated that she had suffered so badly to reach work that she had to resort to social media to ask people with suitable vehicles to help her reach her hospital. Some NHS staff even walked hours in the snow to get to and from their workplaces. NHS were quick to express their gratitude to Dr Glen Allaway, a Devon based General Practitioner, who had spent two consecutive nights caught up in his Health Care centre so that he could be there for his patients.

Several villagers had stepped up to help Community Health Care professionals to reach villages that were completely cut off due to the snow.

Community outreach workers could be seen in the wee hours of the morning trying to help the homeless who would suffer most due to the brutal end to this winter. 

Community Nursing 2018 would like to express its gratitude to all healthcare professionals who took great perils to serve us even in such harsh weather conditions.

Join us at Community Nursing 2018, Cape Town, South Africa on 17-18 September to show your support to our health workforce. 

We assure you that it won’t be freezing in Cape Town!!!

For details please visit community.nursingconference.com

Best Regards,

John Hunt,

Program Manager,

Community Nursing2018,

47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom

Phone +44-2088190774

Email: community@nursingconference.com

Alcohol Use Linked to Dementia Onset

Alcohol use disorders are a major risk factor for all types of dementia, including early-onset dementia, according to recently published findings.

Michaël Schwarzinger, MD, Ph.D., and colleagues from France and Canada analysed adult patients admitted to hospitals between 2008 and 2013 to evaluate the link between alcohol use and dementia risk.

The study authors wrote that while some literature suggests a beneficial effect of light to moderate drinking on cognitive health, moderate drinking is consistently associated with damage to the brain.

Between 2008 and 2013, there were 31.6 million adults aged 20 years or older who were discharged from French metropolitan hospitals. The researchers learned that 1.1 million of those patients were diagnosed with dementia and therefore included in the analysis.

Of those patients, there were about 57,000 cases of early-onset dementia. Most of those, nearly 40%, were alcohol-related or had an additional diagnosis or alcohol use disorders, the researchers determined and was equally true for both men and women. However, the researchers did add that alcohol use was not included in the recent dementia review published by the Lancet Commission examining dementia prevention, intervention, and care.

Notably, they wrote, when patients were under the age of 65 years, the most common cases of dementia were alcohol-related, or the patients otherwise qualified for a diagnosis of alcohol use disorders.

“Alcohol-related dementia should be recognized as one of the main causes of early-onset dementia,” they wrote. “Additionally, clinicians should be better aware of the role of alcohol use disorders in dementia onset over the lifetime, which seems to be a risk factor often omitted.”

The study authors offered a variety of reasons for their findings. Among them, heavy drinking can lead to permanent structural and functional brain damage because of the ethanol. Plus, heavy drinking can lead to other conditions which damage the brain, such as epilepsy, head injury and vascular diseases. Heavy drinking can also be linked to smoking, depression and low education, they wrote. These factors have led to formulating a specific diagnosis for alcohol-related dementia.

Come join the discussion at Community Nursing 2018, September 17-18, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.

Visit us at https://community.nursingconference.com

John Hunt,

Program Manager,

Community Nursing2018,

47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom

Phone +44-2088190774

Email: community@nursingconference.com