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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Improving Access to Post-Diagnosis Care and Support (Department of Health / Dementia Challenge)
Summary The Secretary of State for Health has written to health and wellbeing boards and local authorities, encouraging collaborative working with local NHS employees to increase awareness of dementia and diagnosis rates, and to improve all aspects of support for … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund (BCF), Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Care England, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Carers Call to Action, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Challenge on Dementia, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Care Teams, Collaborative Commissioning, Collaborative Healthcare Practice, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Models of Delivery, Collaborative Working, Commissioning Local Services, Dementia Action Alliance Carers’ Call to Action, Dementia Advisers, Dementia Advisor Service, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Towns, English Local Authorities, Five Pillars of Post-Diagnostic Support, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Health and Wellbeing, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health and Wellbeing of Adult Carers, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Health and Wellbeing, Local Health and Wellbeing Boards, Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy, Local Integration, Local Interventions, Local Service Providers, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Post-Diagnosis Support, Post-Diagnostic Dementia Support, Post-Diagnostic Support, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Reminiscence, Reminiscence Services, Reminiscence Therapy, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Support for Carers, Support for Carers of People with Dementia, Working with Local Authorities
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Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults (USPSTF)
Summary The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment / dementia have been updated. USPSTF concludes that the evidence remains insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms regarding screening for cognitive impairment in … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews
Tagged Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US), Alzheimer’s Early Screening, Benefits of Detection and Early Intervention, Case Finding, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, Cognition Disorders, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Screening, Dementia Screening Debate, Early Diagnosis, Early Screening, Effectiveness of Early Detection and Treatment, Harms of Detection and Early Intervention or Treatment, Mass Screening, Neuropsychological Tests, Risk Assessment, Screening for Cognitive Impairment, Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults, Screening Programmes, Screening Tests, Targeted Screening, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), United States, United States Preventive Services Task Force, USA
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Neurophysiological Hub of Pessimism and Depression? (BBC News / PNAS / Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience)
Summary Researchers may have identified an area of the brain involved in the prediction of things about to go wrong or end unpleasantly. The habenula might be involved in depression; hyperactivity in this brain region may be associated with the … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Depression, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Mental Health, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Argentina, Aversive Associative Learning, Aversive Memories, BBC Health News, Brain Scans, Catastrophising, Center for Information and Neural Networks: National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (Osaka), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory: University of Cambridge, Departamento de Fisiología: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medicina: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit: University College London, Grupo de Neurociencia de Sistemas: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Habenula, Habenula (Diminutive of Habena: Latin for Rein), Inhibitory Avoidance (IA), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience: University College London, Instituto de Biología Celular y Neurociencias: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lateral Habenula (LHb), MRI Scans, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (Osaka), Negative Motivation, Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Over-Sensitivity to Negative Feedback, Over-Sensitivity to Punishment, Pessimism and Depression, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Université de Lausanne, University College London, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging: University College London
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How Primary Care Could Help Reduce Emergency Admissions (University of Bristol / NIHR / BMJ Open)
Summary Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care reviewed the international evidence about how GPs might help reduce attendances at emergency departments. They have discovered that seeing the same GP each time patients visit their doctor’s … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E, Access to Primary Care, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions (ACS), Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs), BMJ Open, CAPC: University of Bristol Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Centre for Primary Care (University of Manchester), Centre of Academic Primary Care: School of Community and Social Medicine (University of Bristol), Chronic Diseases, Community Care, Community Facilities, Community-Based Services, Complex Care, Complex Needs, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences: University of Oxford, Distance From Home to Emergency Care, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, GP Practice Features, GP Surgeries, GPs, Institute of Population Health: Centre for Primary Care (University of Manchester), Inverse Care Law (King's Fund), Low Educational Attainment, Multimorbidity, Multiple Chronic Disease, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR), National School of Primary Care Research (NSPCR), Patient Characteristics, Patient Factors, Patient Factors (Demand Side), Primary Care, Primary care and Population Health: Royal Free Campus (London), Primary Care Factors in Unscheduled Secondary Care, Primary Care Physicians, Primary Care Service Interventions, Proximity, Quality of Care, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Repeat Non-Emergency Attendees (Emergency Departments), Royal Free Campus (London), Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Socioeconomic Status, Supply-Side Factors, University of Bristol, University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), University of Manchester, University of Oxford, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Urgent and Emergency Services, Whole Systems Approach
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