Allied health 

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Alzheimer's New Zealand (NZ)

Description:

Any business or organisation can get accredited as Dementia Friendly by working through Alzheimer's New Zealand's Dementia Friendly Recognition Programme

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Alzheimer Scotland and the Scottish Government (UK)

Description:

This guide is about how allied health professionals  can improve their support for people living with dementia, their families, and care partners to enable them to have positive, fulfilling and independent lives for as long as possible. 

Department of Health (UK)

Description:

This UK manual is designed to assist social workers with the very practical and sometimes complicated issues that they may experience in their practice with adults who have different types and stages of dementia. It aims to assist the reader reflect on what they do know, start to fill the gaps in the areas that are new to them and is a resource to use and inform their practice in supporting people living with dementia.

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Dementia Training Australia (Au)

Description:

This Australian resource encourages occupational therapists to use activity analysis and problem solving when working to support people with dementia and their care partners in the community. The guide includes an overview of dementia, descriptions of many performance based assessments, and easy to use tables of occupational therapy strategies to support people with dementia to live full, meaningful and manageable lives. The overall focus is on promoting optimal independence and safety in daily living activities.

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Agency for Clinical Innovation; Dementia Australia (Au)

Description:

This guide aims to encourage all health professionals to consider the role of allied health professionals in the health care of a person living with dementia and their carers. It encourages health professionals to think about how allied health professionals can work with a person living with dementia to enable them to live to their full potential. And it informs allied health professionals, who may not have a direct role with aged and dementia health care, of the valuable support they and their colleagues can provide to people living with dementia.

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Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK)

Description:

This guide enables dental professionals to understand dementia and its implications for dental practice, and adapt their patient management and clinical decisions accordingly.

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NHS England (UK)

Description:

This dementia toolkit has been developed to assist the dental team in giving appropriate support to patients and carers living with dementia by raising awareness of the issues they are dealing with and the impact this disease has on their lives

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NHS Education for Scotland (UK) 

Description:

This pack has been designed to meet the education and training needs of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who deliver services to people with a diagnosis of dementia, their families and carers.  While some details are specific to Scotland this pack provides a broad introduction to understanding dementia, with case studies.  Estimated 10 hours to complete. 

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Dementia Training Centre (Au)

Description:

This open access online course explores the ways in which community pharmacies can improve their ability to meet the needs of family carers of people living with dementia. Estimated 3 hours to complete.  Registration required. 

Author:

Julia Blagburn, 2017 (UK)

Description:

This article in the Pharmaceutical Journal explains how pharmacists and pharmacy teams are well placed to assist in the early identification of dementia, as well as to help patients manage their medicines.