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Dementia

UK sources of information and / or support

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes a leaflet called Memory Loss and Dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Alzheimer's Disease Society

Information and help for people with dementia and their carers.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Alzheimer's Scotland - Action on Dementia

Information and help for people with dementia and their carers.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Mental Health Foundation

Provide good information on dementia

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif)  DIPEx

DIPEx (Database of Individual Patient Experiences) is an Oxford based registered charity. It is a database of audio, video and transcript of interviews with patients experiencing a particular illness or health problem. Includes a module on carers of people with dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Dementia

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Dementia

A patient guide to complement the SIGN national guideline for health professionals.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Medicine Guide for Dementia

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Medicine Guide for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) MIND

MIND, one of Britain's leading mental health charities provides information on dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Dementia Care Trust

Operates throughout Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and the Cotswold District. An independent Bristol-based charity providing help for the carers of those suffering from dementia and associated conditions.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Dementia Research Centre

Based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, is one of the UK's leading centres for clinical research into dementia, and the hospital is the lead centre for trialling new drugs to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease (which causes the majority of dementia).

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Pick's Disease Support Group (PDSG)

Provides information and support for people affected by Pick's disease and their carers. The PDSG is under the umbrella of the National Hospital for neurology and Neorosurgery Development Foundation.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) forDementia

The mission of for dementia is to improve the quality of life for people affected by dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Next of Kin

A company providing a service to individuals so that next of kin can be contacted in cases of emergency. There is also a facility to hold medical information to be accessed by professionals if necessary. A range of services are available for children, those living alone, those with medical conditions and others.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) AgeCare

Runs five residential and nursing homes in various parts of the country, for older people who fall outside the age and income range provided for by local authority homes. These homes range from Florence Nightingale's parents' house in Derbyshire to a specialised nursing unit in Surrey for people with dementia.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Alzheimer's Research Trust

This site mainly contains information on current research projects and research news in the UK. It also includes a section on Alzheimer's facts.

Patient apple icon (PatientApple.gif) Dementia Link

Aims to provide people with dementia and those who care for them with access to the information they may need to understand and cope with Alzheimer's disease. From Shire Pharmaceuticals Ltd.


Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

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More detailed medical information

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PS - Health and Poverty

Perhaps the biggest cause of ill health in the world is poverty. Help to Make Poverty History. For example, why not lend some of your money to disadvantaged communities to enable them to trade their way out of poverty through schemes such as Shared Interest.

See also MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY North East for details and links to campaigns against poverty.

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