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Dementia Action Week 13th – 19th May 2024

 According to the Alzheimer’s Society, one in three of us born in the UK today will go on to develop dementia in our lifetime, making dementia care one of the greatest challenges facing our society.  Dementia Action Week takes place every year in order to highlight the need for improved dementia care and to encourage people to take action to improve the lives of those affected by dementia.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

  • ABC of dementia; Richards, Felicity A.; Coope, Bernie; 2020 (John Wiley & Sons), 2nd edition.
  • Ethnicity and the dementias; Yeo, Gwen; Gerdner, Linda; Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores; 2019 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group), 3rd edition.

JOURNALS   

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

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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