The issue of driving with dementia or mild cognitive
impairment is of vital importance to patients, their families
and friends, and their clinicians. These guidelines set out
the responsibilities of clinicians to their patients, and
provide a framework for thinking about the management of their
driving safety.
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This resource aims to enable Clinical Commissioning Groups to
achieve and maintain dementia diagnosis rate of at least
two-thirds of the estimated number of people with dementia,
and improve the quality of and access to post diagnostic care
for people living with dementia and their carers.
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The Dementia Care Pathway: full implementation guidance,
published by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health (NCCMH), sets out key commissioning and service
development considerations in the delivery and quality of care
and support for people living with dementia and their families
and carers.
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This NICE guideline covers diagnosing and managing dementia
(including Alzheimer’s disease). It aims to improve care by
making recommendations on training staff and helping carers to
support people living with dementia.
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In this film, produced by Created Out Of Mind, people share
stories and experiences of living with Posterior Cortical
Atrophy (PCA), a rare form of dementia that commonly affects
vision.
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The Dementia Roadmap provides high quality information about
the dementia journey alongside local information about
services, support groups and resources to assist primary care
staff to more effectively support people with dementia and
cognitive impairment, their families and carers.
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Delirium in older adults often goes unrecognised by health
care professionals and can be poorly managed. This video was
produced with the aim of improving recognition and management
of delirium in any healthcare setting.
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This report includes details of a literature review of
commissioner’s current and potential use of weighted financial
remuneration and provides recommendations for commissioners.
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John’s Campaign is about the right of people who care
for someone living with dementia to be able to stay with them
– and the right of people with dementia to be able to
have a family carer stay with them.
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This guide aims to set out the policy drivers and strategic
context for transforming dementia care, and why it is of
importance to commissioners, providers and sustainability and
transformation partnerships (STPs) in supporting delivery of a
number of objectives in the Department of Health’s Prime
Minister’s challenge on dementia 2020, published February
2015, which complements the aims of the Five Year Forward
View, published in October 2014.
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Dementia Partnerships
Driving with dementia or mild cognitive impairment:
Consensus guidelines for clinicians
