Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T03:55:16.138Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Alzheimer's disease – the experiences of national voluntary organisations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brian O'Shea
Brian O'Shea*
Affiliation:
Newcastle Hospital, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

I previously reported (O'Shea, 1989) on the experiences of national Huntington's disease (HD) organisations in Britain, Holland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA. The Australian experience was discussed later (Kapp, 1990; O'Shea, 1990). The earlier paper supported the contention (Black, 1988) that the medical profession in general was not supportive of HD voluntary groups. I also expressed concern that the lobbying of voluntary groups representing far more common disorders was “bound to dilute the impact that Huntington societies may have.”

Type
Original articles
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 11 , November 1992 , pp. 689 - 690
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

Black, M. E. (1988) Self help groups and professionals – what is the relationship? British Medical Journal, 296, 1485–1486.Google Scholar
Kapp, R. (1990) Huntington's disease associations in Australia. Psychiatric Bulletin, 14, 93–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O'Shea, B. (1989) Huntington's disease – the experiences of voluntary organisations. Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 409–411.Google Scholar
O'Shea, B. (1990) Huntington's disease associations in Australia. Psychiatric Bulletin, 14, 94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.