Dementia Groups

Dementia / Alzheimer Papers

Projects

UK National

  • Dementia - Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
    Issue date: November 2006
    http://www.csip.org.uk/silo/files/nice-scie-guideline-to-improve-care-of-people-with-dementia.pdf
     

  • Alzheimer's Society response
    Health reform in England: update and commissioning framework
    http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/News_and_Campaigns/Campaigning/PDF/Alzheimers_Society_Response_Health_Reform.pdf
     

  • The social and political context of formal dementia care provision
    Anthea Innes (Centre for Social Research on Dementia, University of Stirling, Scotland)
    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=116643
     

  • UK Mental Health Research Network
    http://www.mhrn.info 
     

  • Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) 
    http://www.dendron.org.uk/ 
    http://www.ukcrn.org.uk/index/networks/dementias.html 
     
    South West leader is Professor Ray Jones
    http://www.bath.ac.uk/pr/releases/roy_jones.htm  
     
    From NewsLetter - A team from University College London and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has recently been appointed to coordinate the development of the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN), led by Director Professor Martin Rossor and Co-Director Professor Ian McKeith. The DeNDRoN team will coordinate a network of NHS staff and resources across the UK with the aim of expanding the number and participation in a range of clinical research studies of treatments for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease. DeNDRoN will build on the pre-existing disease networks such as the UK Huntington's Disease Network and the networks of care and research in Motor Neurone Disease and representatives from each of these networks have been appointed to lead a Clinical Studies Group in those areas. Other Clinical Studies Groups in dementia (Alzheimer's disease), primary health and social care, genetics  and neuropathology and brain banking will be established and all will lead portfolio development in their specific areas.  "The Dementias and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network will forge partnerships between specialists in psychiatry and neurology  together with teams in primary care who treat this large group of patients with complex and often long-term diseases. The network will offer unprecedented opportunities to bring the latest clinical treatments and trials to people in the UK. The new scheme will operate in close partnership with patient organisations to ensure that we are addressing the research questions that are of most importance to them."
    Professor McKeith, Co-Director.

Singapore

Conferences

  • Mental Health Research in the South West Annual Conference
    November 30, 2006 - Lyngford House, Taunton
    http://www.mhrn.info/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=83 
    This conference is for everyone involved in mental health research including healthcare professionals, researchers, service users and carers.

Groups

Mental Heath

Interesting conferences on the topic

2006 - SPMC / SoCCE / UoP