New Criteria and Guidelines for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis have been published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Lithium treatment may slow the development of dementia, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (Wednesday 27 April 2011).
The April 2011 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website.
This guidance document provides support to commissioners and providers in implementing the 2011/12 NHS Standard Contract for Care Home services.
A recent letter issued by Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, notifies PCT Medical Directors of a proposed data collection exercise starting in May 2011, about the establishment of memory services, as part of a National Audit of Dementia Services.
The April 2011 issue of the Alzheimer’s Society Research Newsletter includes features on Improving dementia care in general hospitals and understanding the link between brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease.
Skills for Care recently published Learning from Innovation a report exploring the knowledge from the New Types of Worker programme and its implications for the transformation of the workforce in adult social care.
This national indicator set meets the commitment set out in the local government white paper Strong and Prosperous Communities to introduce a single set of national indicators by which to measure outcomes.
A Which? magazine recent investigation put actors into four care homes to spend a week living as ‘residents’. This article includes a video report where Which? magazine experts and actors talk about the findings.