Skip to main content

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/. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Reduced opening hours at the Health Library over Easter 2025

 There will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library (Royal Stoke Hospital site) over the Easter holiday weekend. Friday 18th April - Closed Saturday 19th April - 10am to 4pm Sunday 20th April - Closed Monday 21st April - Closed Online resources remain accessible from our website . Alternative library access: The Health Library at County - Stafford Hospital: The library will be self-service for those w ith 24/7 hour access Friday 18 th March   - Monday 21 st April - for members who have already arranged access. To arrange 24/7 access please email library@uhnm.nhs.uk , well in advance before 18 th April. Staffed library service will resume Tuesday 22 nd  April.

Dry January - 2017

Dry January is Alcohol Concern's flagship campaign. The campaign is a chance to ditch the hangover, reduce the waistline, and save money by giving up alcohol for 31 days.  Instead of talking about what fun (or not) you might have drinking, this sparks off lots of different conversations about the benefits of having a break from drinking. These are the sort of conversations that Alcohol Concern wants to have with people. In January 2014 according to Alcohol Concern, over 17,000 Britons stopped drinking for that month. While there is controversy as to the efficacy and benefits of the practice, a 2014 survey by the University of Sussex found that six months following January 2014, out of 900 surveyed participants in the custom, 72% had "kept harmful drinking episodes down" and 4% were still not drinking. For more about Dry January, please visit the Alcohol Concern website: https://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES   For anyone studying ...