Improving dementia care in primary care: 10 key steps for General Practice
Improving dementia care in primary care: 10 key steps for General Practice
This Briefing is designed to support GPs and primary health care teams to improve the recognition, diagnosis and management of dementia. It promotes:
- people’s rights, and tackling stigma associated with dementia
- case finding approaches
- tools to support initial assessment
- tips for better coding and record keeping, and
- signposts to additional training and education resources.
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Improving diagnosis of dementia: 10 key steps for Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups
Improving diagnosis of dementia: 10 key steps for Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups
This Briefing has been prepared as a resource for Commissioners, Clinical Commissioning Groups and local partners to develop and deliver comprehensive action plans to improve the rate of diagnosis of dementia, the diagnosis pathway.
Both briefings are supplemented by additional resources, including:
- Dementia Care in Primary Care Toolkit (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)
- Diagnosing Dementia Guidance and Standards (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)
- New Models of Care for Dementia (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)