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Improving the quality of care for mild to moderate dementia
— an evaluation of the Croydon Memory Service Model | | Author(s) | Sube Banerjee, Rosalind Willis, David Matthews |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 8, August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 782-788 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Psychiatric treatment ; Services ; Health services ; Voluntary agencies ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Multi disciplinary ; Evaluation ; Quality of life ; Longitudinal surveys ; Croydon. |
| Annotation | The Croydon Memory Service Model (CMSM) has been developed as a model of care that is complementary to local systems of health and social care. It is a low-cost, high-throughput, generic service to enable early identification and interventions in dementia. It is a multi-agency approach with joint ownership by health services, social services and the voluntary sector with embedded specifically tailored approaches to primary health care and minority ethnic communities. The authors completed a service evaluation of the introduction of the CMSM in one borough in South London. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used, including a description and 6-month follow-up of 290 consecutive referrals. Six predefined service goals were set (and met): high acceptability (95%); high appropriate referral rate (94%); successful engagement with people from minority ethnic groups (a 2-fold greater number than that expected); successful engagement with people with young onset dementia (17% of referrals); focus on engagement with mild cases to enable early intervention (68%); and an increase in the overall number of new cases of dementia seen (some 63%). Specific services for early dementia, which deliver diagnosis and care, can be established. These services can increase the numbers of people with early dementia identified and provided with care, and their quality of life and behavioural and psychological symptoms also improve. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070910205 A |
| Classmark | EA: LP: I: L: PK: QK6: 3DM: 4C: F:59: 3J: 82L9 |
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