Dementia

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Welcome to the CPPE page on dementia. This sets out to introduce you to the resources that CPPE and other websites provide you around the topic of dementia. As you know, pharmacy plays an important role in working with patients, carers, health and social care teams, and other healthcare professionals to effectively manage dementia and associated medicines. On this page, you will find useful resources to better equip yourself and your team to feel confident when consulting with a patient with dementia or their carer. You could sign up to one of our workshops which may look at Consulting with older people, may look at working with people in dementia or you could think about doing one of our e-learning programmes around the topic of dementia. Look at the resources which are provided by the Alzheimer’s Society, or the resources from NICE, including clinical guidance and quality standards. There is a short quiz to get you started, and you can work your way through the rest of the resources in order to improve the service you provide to people living with dementia.

The aim of this learning programme is to update your clinical knowledge of Lewy Body Dementia to enable you to optimise the medicines of people living with this condition. It builds on other learning we have available, which can be found on our Dementia learning gateway.

A note about keycodes, and pathway and non-pathway event listings

After you select Choose an event, please be aware that workshop listings which require keycodes to access are for pharmacy professionals taking part in the Primary care pharmacy education pathway, while workshops that do not require a keycode are for all other pharmacy professionals who have identified this topic as a learning need.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

• describe the place of medicines in a person’s treatment
• explain the roles of other health professionals involved in a person’s care
• identify situations when best interest principles should be applied
• use a person-centred approach when consulting with residents and their carers to optimise their medicines
• apply your learning to add quality to a person’s care to support their choice and independence.

The overall aim of this programme is to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to recognise, manage and optimise care for people living with dementia and their carers.

A note about keycodes, and pathway and non-pathway event listings

After you select Choose an event, please be aware that workshop listings which require keycodes to access are for pharmacy professionals taking part in the Primary care pharmacy education pathway, while workshops that do not require a keycode are for all other pharmacy professionals who have identified this topic as a learning need.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

• recognise the signs and symptoms of cognitive dysfunction
• discuss the issue of anticholinergic burden in people with dementia and be familiar with the tools used to calculate anticholinergic burden
• outline adjustments you and your team could make to improve consultations for people living with dementia and their family/carers
• consider the use of medicines in dementia and your role in ensuring they are prescribed appropriately
• signpost and refer people and their carers to engage local support services
• become a Dementia Friends Champion and engage your team with the initiative.

This learning will support you to adopt a person-centred approach to involving people with dementia in consultations and decisions about their treatment and health.

Learning Outcomes:

• discuss the importance and benefits of involving people with dementia in consultations and decisions about their treatment and health
• describe the skills and techniques needed to engage and communicate effectively with people with dementia
• identify some key national practice standards most applicable to pharmacy consultations with people with dementia
• recognise and address the challenges of a three-way consultation
• apply the knowledge, behaviours and person-centred skills needed to maximise the effectiveness of your consultations with people with dementia.

Use this factsheet to refresh your knowledge of dementia and identify appropriate further resources.

This quality standard covers preventing dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for people with dementia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

This 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.

This Clinical Knowledge Summary from NICE provides guidance on dementia diagnosis, management, prescribing information as well as background information.

An interactive e-learning resource to support the training of all health and social care staff in supporting people to live well with dementia.

Alzheimer's Society - United Against Dementia webpage