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Dementia Friendly General Practice
Dementia Friendly Recognition Programme
Author:
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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A guide to making general practice dementia friendly
Author:
Alzheimers Society (UK)
Description:
This 2017 guide includes a checklist for GP practices to help people with dementia and carers access high-quality care and support.
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Dementia friendly surgeries implementing ISPACE
Author:
Wessex Academic Health Network (UK)
Description:
The ISPACE programme has produced a brochure that describes how to make a surgery dementia friendly and the steps that can be taken to bring about this quality improvement programme. They also have a video presentation and other resources available.
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Becoming a dementia friendly GP Surgery A pocket guide
Author:
Health Watch Devon and Exeter Dementia Action Alliance (UK)
Description:
A brief guide to enable health centres to adopt dementia friendly practice.
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Developing Dementia Friendly GP Practices: Guidance document
Author:
Bury Dementia Friendly GP Practices project (UK)
Description:
To enable other organisations to learn from this UK project, a summary of the aims, management, benefits and future opportunities is presented in this guidance document.
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Four steps to Building Dementia Practice in Primary Care
Author:
Alzheimer’s Australia, 2015
Description:
These guidelines are intended for nurses to build skill, confidence and capacity within general practice. Each section of the guidelines encourages the nurse to think about current practice and the evidence to support each recommendation. The four steps towards building dementia practice are Step 1 Building dementia knowledge in primary care Step 2 Building a process towards dementia diagnosis Step 3 Building an approach to dementia support Step 4 Building sustainable dementia practice
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