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| The second Leicester survey of memory clinics in the British Isle | | Author(s) | James Lindesay, Mangesh Marudkar, Erik van Diepen |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp pp 41-47 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Psychiatric treatment. |
| Annotation | An expanded version of a 1993 questionnaire was sent to 102 possible memory clinics, identified by various means. 72 replies were received, 50 of which were from currently active clinics. There has been a substantial growth in the number of clinics since the 1993 survey, apparently stimulated by the licensing of cholinesterase inhibitor drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the development of services for early-onset dementia. Most of the new memory clinics have been set up within NHS old age psychiatry services, and they tend to be smaller and have less of an academic focus than the older clinics. However, they are similar in many aspects of their functioning, and have a similar range of practice with regard to patient assessment. There is potential for an agreed core data set for assessment that would be valuable in the national monitoring of new anti-dementia treatments in clinical practice. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020212213 A |
| Classmark | EA: L6G: LP |
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