Primary care and dementia / Steve Iliffe and Vari Drennan ; foreword by Murna Downs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iliffe, Steve.

Contributor:

Drennan, Vari.

Series:

Bradford Dementia Group good practice guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia.

Dementia--Patients--Services for.

Primary care (Medicine).

Physical Description:

155 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.

Contents:

1. The Clinical Features of Dementia 11

2. Confirming and Conveying the Diagnosis 35

3. The Pathway of Dementia 60

4. Carers of People with Dementia 85

5. Caring for People as the Dementia Progresses 101

6. Good Practice and Service Development 120

1.1 Summary of diagnostic process 28

6.1 GPASS Screenshots 125

6.2 The process of dementia care in the community 126

1.1 Features of dementia at different points in its path 15

1.2 The differential diagnosis of dementia, acute confusion and depression 17

2.1 New anti-dementia drugs 58

3.1 Prescribing for behaviour problems and psychotic symptoms in dementia 78

5.1 Outline of the effects of progressing dementia 102

5.2 Recording of signs of well-being in a person with dementia 114

Boxes

1.1 Lewy body dementia 25

2.1 Abbreviated Mental Test Score 38

2.2 Mini Mental State Examination 39

2.3 The 6CIT 42

2.4 Minimum investigation set 46

4.1 Checklist for GPs and primary care teams to help carers 98

4.2 A source of information for carers and families 100

5.1 Methods involved in removing the status of person from someone with dementia 104

5.2 Further reading: Hearing the voice of people with dementia 108

5.3 A checklist of knowledge of the local community care assessment processes 110

5.4 Further reading: Assessing and managing risk of people with dementia 112

5.5 Further reading: Abuse of older people 119

6.1 Dementia centres 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and indexes.

ISBN:

1853029971

OCLC:

46791064