Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Background and Significance -- 1 How Many People with Dementia Are Hospitalized? -- 2 In Search of Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: A Survey of Patient Care Directors in Massachusetts -- 3 Acute Care for Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding Variations in Hospital Use Rates -- Part II: Four Perspectives on the Hospital Experience for Persons with Dementia -- 4 The Hospital Experience: Perspectives of Assisted Living Providers -- 5 A Geriatric Social Worker's Perspective on Alzheimer's Patients in the Emergency Room -- 6 The Acute Care Experience in the Emergency Department -- 7 The InPatient Experience from the Perspective of the Isolated Adult with Alzheimer's Disease -- Part Three: Promising Approaches for Improving Care for Hospitalized Elders with Dementia -- 8 Changing Dementia Care in a Hospital System: The Providence Milwaukie Experience -- 9 A NICHE Delirium Prevention Project for Hospitalized Elders -- 10 Care of the Patient with Dementia in the Acute Care Setting: The Role of the ACE Unit -- 11 Windows to the Heart: Creating an Acute Care Dementia Unit -- Part Four: Strategies for Making a Difference -- 12 Try This: Best Practices in Nursing Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia -- 13 Alzheimer's Association New York City Chapter: Strategies for Improving Hospital Care -- Conclusion: Toward a Vision of Dementia-Friendly Hospital -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.