Primary Care Guidelines

The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre has released a new resource for use in general practice titled People with dementia: A care guide for general practice. The guide is to assist with making decisions about how to provide the best care for a person with dementia, and addresses six priority topics that a general practitioner or primary care worker is likely to encounter when providing care for a person with a dementia diagnosis.

The topics covered in the guide include:

  • Communicating: Diagnosis & Consultations for People with Dementia
  • Caring for People with Dementia Experiencing Behavioural &Psychological Symptoms
  • Elder Abuse: Identification and Screening
  • Dementia in People with Intellectual Disability
  • Dementia Prevention
  • Supporting Carers of People with Dementia

The guide was released at the Australasian Association of Gerontology on Thursday 7 November 2019.