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Summary of NICE’s Impact on Dementia Health and Care (NICE)
Summary A National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) marketing report gives an overview of progress in implementing NICE guidance across health and care. The main section headings comprise: Prevent or delay onset of dementia. Referral, diagnosis and care … Continue reading
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Systematic Review of Meaningful Activity for People With Dementia in Long-Term Care (Cochrane Database / NIHR Signal / PLoS Medicine)
Summary Mainstream opinion is nowadays in favour of providing personally-tailored meaningful activity for people with dementia in long-term care, as a means of improving mental wellbeing and quality of life, and / or reducing challenging behaviour without resort to antipsychotics. … Continue reading
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Stop the Over-Medication of People With a Learning Disability or Autism (STOMP) Campaign (NHS England / Royal College of Psychiatrists / BPS)
Summary Professor Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England, has written to raise awareness about the over-medication of people with learning disabilities or autism, on the first anniversary of the Stop the Over-Medication of People With a Learning Disability or Autism … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Access to Psychological Therapies for People With Intellectual Disabilities, Algorithm For Review Reduction or Stopping of Psychotropic Drugs in People With a Learning Disability Autism or Both, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alternatives to Antipsychotics, Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Anxiolytics and Hypnotics (Including Benzodiazepines), Art Drama and Music Therapies, Arts Therapies, Autism, Behavioural Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, British Psychological Society (BPS), British Psychological Society: Division of Clinical Psychology, CAT: Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Challenging Behaviour, Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF), Chemical Restraint, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Challenges, Commissioning Team for Faculties For Intellectual Disabilities of Royal College of Psychiatrists, DCP: Division of Clinical Psychology, Deficits and Distortions, Deprescribing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Dramatherapy, Drug Prescribing, Drugs for Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder, Facing Real Challenges, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability: Royal College of Psychiatrists, General Practice, GP Practices, GPs, Group Interventions, Group-Based Mindfulness Interventions, Improving Prescribing Practice, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Innovation Adaptation and Reasonable Adjustments to Ensure Equality for People With Intellectual Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities: Addressing the Meaning of ID to Individuals, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disability Autism or Both, Learning Disability Professional Senate, Measurement of Outcomes in Psychological Therapies for People With Intellectual Disabilities, Medication Reviews, Mental Health and Behaviour Which Challenges, Mindfulness, Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Therapies, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), MiXIT Theatre Group (Newcastle), Mood Stabilisers, Music Therapy, Over-Medication, Over-Medication for People With Learning Disabilities, Over-Prescribing, Overprescribing, People With Learning Disabilities, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Prescribing, Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs For People With Dementia, Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs For People With Learning Disabilities, Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychological Therapies, Psychological Therapies and People Who Have Intellectual Disabilities (BPS), Psychological Therapies for People With Intellectual Disabilities: Quality Measures, Psychotropic Drug Prescribing For People With Behaviours That Challenge (RCPsych), Psychotropic Drug Prescribing For People With Intellectual Disability (RCPsych), Psychotropic Drug Prescribing For People With Mental Health Problems (RCPsych), Real Life Change, Reducing Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Dementia, Reducing Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Psychiatrists: Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Royal Colleges of Nursing - Psychiatrists, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Self-Monitoring, Soles of the Feet Meditation, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Standards For Psychotropic Drug Prescribing, STOMP (Awareness Campaign), STOMP It Out Drugs Campaign, STOMP Pledge, STOMP Pledge on Overmedication of People With Learning Disability and Autism, STOMP-STAMP Pledge: Resources, STOMP: Stopping Over Medication of People With a Learning Disability Autism or Both, Stop the Over-Medication of People With a Learning Disability or Autism (STOMP) Campaign, Supporting Treatment and Appropriate Medication in Paediatrics (STAMP), Systemic Psychotherapy, Therapeutic Bond, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG)
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Psychological Interventions For Dementia: Putting the Person at the Centre of Care (BPS)
Summary The British Psychological Society’s Dementia Advisory Group has produced a report on the psychological aspects of dementia care; particularly covering the roles of psychologists in providing practical support. Recommendations are presented concerning: Prevention / risk-reduction. Assessment. Planning of care. … Continue reading
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