Evidence on Other Dementias (NHS Evidence, Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update 2008)

Abstract

The 2008 Annual Evidence Update (AEU), produced by NHS Evidence,  gives an overview of the most important evidence published during the period Spring 2007 – Summer 2008.

This section of the AEU is aimed at clinicians in primary care or general medicine. It covers:

• Frontotemporal Dementia.
• Vascular Dementia.
• Diagnosis and Screening: Dementia with Lewy Bodies.
• Diagnosis and Screening: Frontotemporal Dementia.
• Pharmacological treatments: Vascular Dementia.
• Non-pharmacological treatments: Vascular Dementia.

Read more: NHS Evidence – Later life – Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update 2008: 6. Evidence on other Dementias.

This AEU has since been updated in 2009 and 2010. (See Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter RWHT Volume 1 Issue 3 October 2010).

Reference

Banerjee, A. 2008 Annual Evidence Update on Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia. NHS Evidence: Later Life.