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  • Dementia Summit
    • Photo gallery
  • 2009 Review
    • Findings
    • What people told us
• Early diagnosis
  • 10 Key Steps to improving diagnosis
  • Primary care conference 2012
  • Dementia prevalence and diagnosis
  • Memory services and cafes map
  • Memory Assessment Services
    • Commissioning guidance
    • Expert Reference Group
    • Provider Network
    • National accreditation programme
    • Memory assessment pathway
  • GP education and awareness
    • Programme report
• Hospital care
  • Hospital care conference 2012
  • Hospital care conference 2011
    • Speakers presentations
    • Workshop presentations
    • Conference poem
    • Photo gallery
    • Video gallery
    • Creative compassion
  • Hospital standards
    • The standards
    • Relevant, aligned and locally owned
    • Timetable and next steps
    • Continuous improvement
    • Ward champion
    • Innovative practice
  • Awareness resource pack
    • Contents
    • Sample library resources
    • Useful organisations
    • Awareness resources library
    • Blueprint for local adoption
    • Share your views
  • Peer review
    • Peer review findings
  • National Audit
  • Hospitals ERG
  • Regional conference 2010
  • Dignity in dementia
• Care homes
  • Dementia Quality Mark
  • Person centred support plan
  • Awareness leaflets
  • Learning disability care homes
  • Improving care
  • Care homes newsletter
• Prescribing
  • Safety reviews
  • NICE guidelines
  • Antipsychotics
    • Assuring quality and safety
    • Decision support tools
    • Needs assessment
    • Prescribing guidelines
    • Undertaking audits
• Workforce development
  • Learning pathway
    • Step 1 Essential dementia awareness
      • Introduction
      • 1 What is dementia?
      • 2 What causes dementia?
      • 3 Diagnosing dementia
      • 4 The dementia journey
      • 5 What does having dementia mean?
      • 6 Effect on feelings and emotions
      • 7 Behaviours that challenge us
      • 8 Person centred approaches
      • 9 Supporting the person with dementia
      • 10 Some other causes of confusion
      • 11 Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Step 2 Further knowledge in dementia
      • Introduction
      • 1 Causes of dementia
      • 2 Common difficulties
      • 3 General health and wellbeing
      • 4 Person centred care
      • 5 Equality and diversity
      • 6 Life history work
      • 7 Positive communication
      • 8 Behaviours that challenge us
      • 9 Medication
      • 10 Safeguarding issues
      • 11 Legislation
      • 12 Supporting carers
      • 13 End of life care
      • 14 Final points
      • 15 Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Step 3 Behaviours that challenge us
      • Introduction
      • Workbook 1 and 2 refresher
      • 1. Defining behaviours that challenge us
      • 2. Physical needs and physical health
      • 3. Psychological and social needs
      • 4. Influence of personality
      • 5. Neurological impairment
      • 6. Delirium, hallucinations and delusions
      • 7. Impact of the environment
      • 8. Focus on excessive walking (wandering)
      • 9. Focus on aggression
      • 10. Focus on vocally disruptive behaviour
      • 11. Focus on repetitive behaviour
      • 12. Focus on sexual expression
      • 13. Communication
      • 14. Life history
      • 15. Environment
      • 16. Observation tools
      • 17. Validation therapy
      • 18. Working with families and friends
      • 19. Medication
      • 20. Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Dementia e-learning
  • Learning library
    • Awareness leaflets
  • Dementia competency framework
    • Read online
  • Learning4Health
  • Commissioning guidance
    • Introduction
    • Role of commissioners
    • Outcomes
    • Planning model
    • Checklist
      • Analyse
      • Plan
      • Do
      • Review
    • Care pathway
    • Competencies
    • Core principles
    • Competency framework
    • Learning and education
    • Ambition
    • NICE Quality Statement
    • References
  • Dementia support workers
  • Innovation
    • Memory matters
    • Plymouth
    • South Gloucestershire
    • Swindon
    • Wiltshire
    • Australia
    • Housing 21 Dementia Voice
    • Staffordshire
    • Nottingham
  • Regional network
  • Dementia qualifications
• System redesign
  • Commissioning
    • Commissioning framework
    • Dementia Commissioning Pack
    • Commissioners Network
    • Commissioning resources
  • Domiciliary care
    • Provider perspective
      • Key messages
    • Autumn workshops
      • Video footage
  • Leadership programme
    • Core programme
      • Day 2 resources
  • Raising awareness
  • Carers
  • Making involvement count
    • Read pack online
    • Dementia carers pathways booklet
  • Local progress
    • Local highlights
      • Devon
      • Gloucestershire
  • Demonstrator sites
    • Dementia advisors
    • Peer support projects
• Resources
  • Library
  • Innovative practice
    • 1. Awareness
    • 2. Early diagnosis
    • 3. Information
    • 4. Access
    • 5. Peer support
    • 6. Personal support
    • 7. Carers strategy
    • 8. Hospitals
    • 9. Intermediate care
    • 10. Housing / telecare
    • 11. Care homes
    • 12. End of life care
    • 13. Workforce
    • 14. Commissioning
    • Arts
    • Submit story
  • Links
    • Acute Trusts
    • Care Trusts
    • Charities
    • Improvement / regulation
    • Local authorities
    • Mental Health Trusts
    • Primary Care Trusts
    • Research
    • Social care
    • Users and carers
  • Dementia strategy
  • NAO report
  • World Alzheimer Report
  • Dementia UK
  • Map of Medicine
  • Housing
  • Telecare
  • Involvement
  • Person-centred approaches
  • This is me
  • Ethical issues
  • End of life care
  • Intervention effectiveness
  • Reminiscence
  • In their own words
  • Talking mats
• News
  • Alzheimer's Society news
  • Care news
  • DH dementia news
  • DH news
  • DH new publications
  • NHS news
  • Professor Alistair Burns blog
  • Regional news
• Events

• Sitemap

Sitemap

• Home
• About
  • Partners
  • Partnership steering group
  • Bulletin
    • Issue 6
    • Issue 5
    • Issue 4
    • Issue 3
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 1
  • Dementia Summit
    • Photo gallery
  • 2009 Review
    • Findings
    • What people told us
• Early diagnosis
  • 10 Key Steps to improving diagnosis
  • Primary care conference 2012
  • Dementia prevalence and diagnosis
  • Memory services and cafes map
  • Memory Assessment Services
    • Commissioning guidance
    • Expert Reference Group
    • Provider Network
    • National accreditation programme
    • Memory assessment pathway
  • GP education and awareness
    • Programme report
• Hospital care
  • Hospital care conference 2012
  • Hospital care conference 2011
    • Speakers presentations
    • Workshop presentations
    • Conference poem
    • Photo gallery
    • Video gallery
    • Creative compassion
  • Hospital standards
    • The standards
    • Relevant, aligned and locally owned
    • Timetable and next steps
    • Continuous improvement
    • Ward champion
    • Innovative practice
  • Awareness resource pack
    • Contents
    • Sample library resources
    • Useful organisations
    • Awareness resources library
    • Blueprint for local adoption
    • Share your views
  • Peer review
    • Peer review findings
  • National Audit
  • Hospitals ERG
  • Regional conference 2010
  • Dignity in dementia
• Care homes
  • Dementia Quality Mark
  • Person centred support plan
  • Awareness leaflets
  • Learning disability care homes
  • Improving care
  • Care homes newsletter
• Prescribing
  • Safety reviews
  • NICE guidelines
  • Antipsychotics
    • Assuring quality and safety
    • Decision support tools
    • Needs assessment
    • Prescribing guidelines
    • Undertaking audits
• Workforce development
  • Learning pathway
    • Step 1 Essential dementia awareness
      • Introduction
      • 1 What is dementia?
      • 2 What causes dementia?
      • 3 Diagnosing dementia
      • 4 The dementia journey
      • 5 What does having dementia mean?
      • 6 Effect on feelings and emotions
      • 7 Behaviours that challenge us
      • 8 Person centred approaches
      • 9 Supporting the person with dementia
      • 10 Some other causes of confusion
      • 11 Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Step 2 Further knowledge in dementia
      • Introduction
      • 1 Causes of dementia
      • 2 Common difficulties
      • 3 General health and wellbeing
      • 4 Person centred care
      • 5 Equality and diversity
      • 6 Life history work
      • 7 Positive communication
      • 8 Behaviours that challenge us
      • 9 Medication
      • 10 Safeguarding issues
      • 11 Legislation
      • 12 Supporting carers
      • 13 End of life care
      • 14 Final points
      • 15 Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Step 3 Behaviours that challenge us
      • Introduction
      • Workbook 1 and 2 refresher
      • 1. Defining behaviours that challenge us
      • 2. Physical needs and physical health
      • 3. Psychological and social needs
      • 4. Influence of personality
      • 5. Neurological impairment
      • 6. Delirium, hallucinations and delusions
      • 7. Impact of the environment
      • 8. Focus on excessive walking (wandering)
      • 9. Focus on aggression
      • 10. Focus on vocally disruptive behaviour
      • 11. Focus on repetitive behaviour
      • 12. Focus on sexual expression
      • 13. Communication
      • 14. Life history
      • 15. Environment
      • 16. Observation tools
      • 17. Validation therapy
      • 18. Working with families and friends
      • 19. Medication
      • 20. Quiz
      • Feedback
    • Dementia e-learning
  • Learning library
    • Awareness leaflets
  • Dementia competency framework
    • Read online
  • Learning4Health
  • Commissioning guidance
    • Introduction
    • Role of commissioners
    • Outcomes
    • Planning model
    • Checklist
      • Analyse
      • Plan
      • Do
      • Review
    • Care pathway
    • Competencies
    • Core principles
    • Competency framework
    • Learning and education
    • Ambition
    • NICE Quality Statement
    • References
  • Dementia support workers
  • Innovation
    • Memory matters
    • Plymouth
    • South Gloucestershire
    • Swindon
    • Wiltshire
    • Australia
    • Housing 21 Dementia Voice
    • Staffordshire
    • Nottingham
  • Regional network
  • Dementia qualifications
• System redesign
  • Commissioning
    • Commissioning framework
    • Dementia Commissioning Pack
    • Commissioners Network
    • Commissioning resources
  • Domiciliary care
    • Provider perspective
      • Key messages
    • Autumn workshops
      • Video footage
  • Leadership programme
    • Core programme
      • Day 2 resources
  • Raising awareness
  • Carers
  • Making involvement count
    • Read pack online
    • Dementia carers pathways booklet
  • Local progress
    • Local highlights
      • Devon
      • Gloucestershire
  • Demonstrator sites
    • Dementia advisors
    • Peer support projects
• Resources
  • Library
  • Innovative practice
    • 1. Awareness
    • 2. Early diagnosis
    • 3. Information
    • 4. Access
    • 5. Peer support
    • 6. Personal support
    • 7. Carers strategy
    • 8. Hospitals
    • 9. Intermediate care
    • 10. Housing / telecare
    • 11. Care homes
    • 12. End of life care
    • 13. Workforce
    • 14. Commissioning
    • Arts
    • Submit story
  • Links
    • Acute Trusts
    • Care Trusts
    • Charities
    • Improvement / regulation
    • Local authorities
    • Mental Health Trusts
    • Primary Care Trusts
    • Research
    • Social care
    • Users and carers
  • Dementia strategy
  • NAO report
  • World Alzheimer Report
  • Dementia UK
  • Map of Medicine
  • Housing
  • Telecare
  • Involvement
  • Person-centred approaches
  • This is me
  • Ethical issues
  • End of life care
  • Intervention effectiveness
  • Reminiscence
  • In their own words
  • Talking mats
• News
  • Alzheimer's Society news
  • Care news
  • DH dementia news
  • DH news
  • DH new publications
  • NHS news
  • Professor Alistair Burns blog
  • Regional news
• Events

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