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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
Link
A GP guide to becoming Dementia Friendly
Author:
Dementia Action Alliance (UK)
Description:
Dementia Action Alliance in the UK provide links to case studies of general practices’ action plans to become more dementia friendly
Link
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 available.
Link
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.
Link
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.
 Link
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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