TY - SER TI - Demencia senil SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 21 N2 - The high prevalence of patients with senile dementia and, above all, the serious personal, family and social implications that derive from it, require significant dedication on the part of the Primary Care nursing staff. This article presents a nursing action protocol that aims to serve as a working instrument that helps the nurse to develop individualized care plans for patients with senile dementia. To this end, it proposes a systematic collection of information, and presents the most frequent nursing diagnoses in patients with these characteristics. For each diagnosis, it proposes objectives and nursing activities to be developed ER -