Dementia Action Week 20th-26th May 2019

The main aim of Dementia Action Week is to unite people, workplaces, schools and communities to take action and improve the lives of people living with dementia.

As stated by the Alzheimer’s Society, almost all of us know someone affected by dementia. But too many people living with dementia report feeling cut off from their community, losing their friendships and facing dementia alone.

Having dementia shouldn’t mean an isolated life. And it doesn’t have to. Simple actions from us all can create supportive communities - where people living with the condition can continue to socialise with others, hop on the bus, go to their favourite shops or take part in local activities for as long as possible.

We all have a role to play in making the UK a dementia-friendly place to live and that’s what Dementia Action Week is all about.

For more information surrounding dementia please visit the NHS Choices and Alzheimer’s Society websites: 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/symptoms/

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/dementia-action-week

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from dementia, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

• Losing Clive to younger onset dementia : one family's story / Helen. Beaumont, 2009, [London : Jessica Kingsley].

• Fast Facts: Dementia / Lawrence J. Whalley John C. S Breitner, 2009 2nd ed., [Abingdon: Health Press]. E-book also available.

• Supporting people with dementia at home : challenges and opportunities for the 21st century / David Challis, 2009, [Farnham : Ashgate].

• Person-centred dementia care : making services better / Dawn Brooker Isabelle Latham, 2015 Second edition, [London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers]. E-book of earlier edition also available.

• Improving services and support for people with dementia / Great Britain. National Audit Office, 2007, [London: Stationery Office].

• Partnerships in community mental health nursing and dementia care: practice perspectives / John Keady Charlotte L Clarke; Sean Page, 2007, [Maidenhead : Open University Press]. E-book also available.

• Dear dementia : the laughter and the tears / Ian. Donaghy, 2014, [London : Hawker Publications Ltd].

• Caring for people with dementia : a shared approach /Christine Brown Wilson, 2017, [Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Pub.].

• Essentials of dementia : everything you really need to know for working in dementia care / Shibley Rahman & Robert Howard, 2018, [London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers].

• Alzheimer's disease and other dementias / Stephen M. Stahl and Debbi Ann Morrissette, 2019, [Cambridge : Cambridge University Press].

JOURNALS:

• Dementia, London: Sage Publications. [Available in print 2002 – 2011, and as a Keele ejournal 2002 onwards].

• Dementia & neuropsychologia, São Paulo : Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento. [Open access journal 2007 onwards, accessible via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, Basel ; New York : Karger. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1998 – 2015 and as a NHS ejournal 2011 onwards].

• Alzheimer's and Dementia : Diagnosis , Assessment and Disease Monitoring, Elsevier. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2015 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Non - pharmacological therapies in dementia, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: Hauppauge, NY. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2011 - 2012].

• Age and ageing, London: Bailliere Tindall. [Available in print 1994 – 2012, as a Keele ejournal 1972 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 1996 onwards].

• The journal of nervous and mental disease, Hagerstown: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins [Available in print 1994 – 2011 and as a NHS ejournal 1996 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Hartwell, H, “Dementia”, Perspectives In Public Health, 2013 May, Vol.133(3), pp.134-134. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Herron, R.V. ; Rosenberg, M.W., "Not there yet": Examining community support from the perspective of people with dementia and their partners in care”, Social Science & Medicine, 2017, Vol.173, pp.81-87. [Available via Keele ejournals].

• Terracciano, Antonio ; Stephan, Yannick ; et al, “Personality traits and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia”, Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2017, Vol.89, pp.22-27. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Montero‐Odasso, Manuel ; Speechley, Mark ; Muir‐Hunter, Susan W. et al, “Motor and Cognitive Trajectories Before Dementia: Results from Gait and Brain Study”, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2018, Vol.66(9), pp.1676-1683. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Chan, Joanne ; Churcher Clarke, Anna ; et al, “A Mindfulness Program Manual for People With Dementia”, Behavior Modification, 2017, Vol.41(6), pp.764-787. [Available via Keele ejournals].

• Hsu, Chia‐Ning ; Lin, Li‐Chan ; Wu, Shiao‐Chi, “The effects of spaced retrieval training in improving hyperphagia of people living with dementia in residential settings”, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2017, Vol.26(19-20), pp.3224-3231. [Available via Keele ejournals].

• Behrman, Sophie; Wilkinson, Philip; Lloyd, Helen; Vincent, Charles, “Patient safety in community dementia services: what can we learn from the experiences of caregivers and healthcare professionals?.”, Age & Ageing, 2017, Vol.46(3), pp.518-521. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Semrau, Maya; Sartorius, Norman; the IDEAL Steering Group; “What is new within staging of care for people with dementia? The IDEAL schedule and other recent work.”, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2019, 14th March, DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000508. Epub ahead of print. [Accessible via NHS ejournals].

• Downs, Murna; Lord, Kathryn, “Person-Centered Dementia Care in the Community: A Perspective From the United Kingdom”, Journal of Gerontological Nursing; Vol. 43(08), pp.11-17. Epub ahead of print. [Accessible via NHS ejournals].

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

• NHS website – Dementia guide https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/

• NHS Evidence  - Dementia search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=dementia

• NHS Evidence  - Dementia search with ‘Patient decision aids’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Patient%20Decision%20Aids%22]}]&q=dementia&sp=on

• Alzheimer’s Society https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/

• Dementia UK https://www.dementiauk.org/

CURRENT AWARENESS:

Health Library current awareness service:

• Mental Health https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Mental_Health
• Elderly care https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Elderly_Care

LERC current awareness service – Elderly care http://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Elderly_Care