Dementia risk reduction and normal ageing vs dementia

Websites:

• World Alzheimer Report 2014: Dementia and Risk Reduction  VIEW

• Differentiating between normal ageing and dementia  VIEW

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Video Links:

Three brief fascinating interviews with Professor Yaakov Stern from
Columbia University in New York.

• Cognitive reserve  VIEW

• Cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance  VIEW

• Building and maintaining cognitive health across the lifespan  VIEW

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News Articles:

• Education may enhance cognitive capacity and reduce risk of dementia  VIEW

• Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?  VIEW

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Living with dementia

Websites:​

• Blog: My Dementia, telling who I am before I forget  VIEW

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Video links:

• How David lives with Alzheimer's to the fullest  VIEW

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News Articles:

• Coronavirus: Self-isolation when you are affected by dementia  VIEW

• Reflections on dementia from readers of the New York Times  VIEW

• Theatre giving voice to people living with dementia VIEW

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Stages of dementia and medical management

Websites:

• The progression of dementia VIEW

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Information sheets from Dementia Australia:

• Drugs used to relieve behavioural and psychological symptoms (changed or responsive behaviours) of dementia  VIEW

• Drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Cholinesterase inhibitors  VIEW

• Drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Memantine  VIEW

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Video Links:​

• A marriage to remember  VIEW

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Diagnosis and younger onset dementia

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Websites:

• Diagnosing dementia (a brief summary from the UK Alzheimer's Society)  VIEW

• Details of the diagnostic tests to diagnose dementia (for health professionals)  VIEW

• Younger Onset Dementia: Diagnosis and early stages  VIEW

• Dementia Australia's younger onset dementia hub  VIEW

• Talking Point online support and discussion forum, for anyone affected by dementia  VIEW

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Video Links:

• Getting diagnosed with dementia  VIEW

• The benefits of an early diagnosis  VIEW

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News Articles:

• Too many delay seeking dementia diagnosis  VIEW

• Dementia guidelines aim to improve diagnosis of patients and education of carers  VIEW

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Advanced dementia and palliation

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Websites:

• End of life care  VIEW

• Palliative care guide for aged care  VIEW

• Dementia information for carers, families and friends of people with severe and end stage dementia VIEW

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Guides:

• A series of guides on palliative care for the person with dementia from the Irish Hospice Foundation can be searched at the following link (bear in mind there will be local legislative provisions)  VIEW

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News Articles:

• 99% of advanced dementia sufferers not getting specialist care, finds study  VIEW

• Palliative care for dementia patients  VIEW

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