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Useful Resources for
people with dementia
and their families
• The Alzheimer’s Society : www.
alzheimers.org.uk
The Alzheimer’s Society provides
a useful support including respite
care (even for a few hours a day) so
that the family continue to have a
semblance of a life of their own. The
Alzheimer’s Society has branches in
most locations.
• Alzheimer Scotland: www.alzscot.org
• Mental Health Foundation: www.
mentalhealth.org.uk
• Choice and Medication: www.
choiceandmedication.org.uk
• PharmacyHealthLink have a
number of lifestyle resources
(“resource cards”, leaflets, posters):
www.pharmacyhealthlink.org.
uk/?q=leaflets-and-factsheets
• Patient UK: www.patient.co.uk/
selfhelp.asp (weight loss, alcohol,
smoking, sleep, mental health etc.)
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/
Dementia/Pages/Introduction.aspx
(includes a video – dementia the real
story ( a carer’s view)
• Mental Health Foundation: talking
therapies: http://www.mentalhealth.
org.uk/information/mental-healtha-z/talking-therapies/
• Dementia Management – Family
Practice Notebook http://www.
fpnotebook.com/Neuro/Cognitive/
DmntMngmnt.htm
• ‘Coping with Dementia: A
practical guide for carers’
www.healthscotland.com/
documents/1469.aspx
• ‘Facing Dementia: How to
live well with your diagnosis’
www.healthscotland.com/
uploads/documents/9365-
FacingDementia2008.pdf
• ‘Worried about your memory?
www.healthscotland.com/
documents/3250.aspx
Useful Resources for Pharmacists
• Taylor D. A. Medicines Use
Reviews in Dementia. CPD
Module. Pharmacy Magazine
May 2007
• Worsley, A; Husband, A.
Understanding Alzheimer’s
disease. Pharmaceutical Journal
2006:277:643-646 www.
pjonline.com
• DH. National Dementia
Strategy, February 2009 http://
www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/
Deliveringadultsocialcare/
Olderpeople/
NationalDementiaStrategy/
DH_083362
• DH. The Use of antipsychotic
medication in people with
dementia. Time for Action
(2009)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group
Report. Always a last resort.
Inquiry into the prescription of
antipsychotic drugs to people
living with dementia in care
homes (2008)
• Westbury, J. How community
pharmacists can help reduce
antipsychotic use in care
homes. Pharmaceutical Journal
2009:283:653-654 www.
pjonline.com
• Ballard, C G et al Management
of agitation and aggression
associated with Alzheimer’s
disease. Nat Rev Neurol
2009;5:245-255
• Maidment, I. et al. Efficacy of
memantine on behavioural
and psychological symptoms
related to dementia: A
systematic meta-analysis. Ann
Pharmacother 2008;42:32-8
• SIGN CG 86 February 2006.
‘Management of patients with
dementia: A national clinical
guideline’ www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/
sign86.pdf
• NICE guidance: Memory
assessment service: www.
nice.org.uk/usingguidance/
commissioningguides/
memoryassessmentservice/
memoryassessmenthome.jsp
• NICE Alzheimer’s disease
– donepezil, galantamine,
rivastigmine (review) and
memantine: guidance
(amended August 2009)
www.nice.org.uk/search/
guidancesearchresults.jsp?key
words=donepezil&searchType=
guidance
• Dementia: Supporting people
with dementia and their carers
in health and social care (NICE
& SCIE, November 2006): www.
nice.org.uk/cg42
• The Care Commission,
Scotland, May 2009.‘Remember
I’m Still Me’ www.
carecommission.com/images/
stories/documents/publications/
reviewsofqualitycare/
remember_im_still_me_-_
may_09.pdf
• The Care Commission,
Scotland, April 2009.‘Better
Care Every Step of the
Way’www.carecommission.
com/images/stories/
documents/publications/
reviewsofqualitycare/better_
care_every_step_of_the_way_-_
april_2009.pdf
• Bazire S. Psychotropic Drug
Directory 2009. Aberdeen:
HealthComm UK Ltd; 2009.
• Taylor D, Paton C, Shitij K. The
Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines
10th Edition. London:Informa
Healthcare;2009.
• The United Kingdom Psychiatric
Pharmacy Group www.ukppg.
org.uk
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