Guides, strategies and research to help manage dementia. For informal carers, NHS workers and people living with dementia themselves. Click on show more to access the full range of resources.
You can also find a range of resources on our Dementia Care Pathway. We worked with people living with dementia, their care partners, and professionals in Greater Manchester to find out what matters to them and to use this information to co-produce a set of 75 dementia quality standards.
Dementia and Brain Health Delivery Plan 2023 to 2025
The purpose of this plan is to work in co-production with partners across Greater Manchester to deliver meaningful reform and quality improvement.
Dementia United Greater Manchester Standards 02092016 [PDF] [PDF]
This set of standards is intended as a tool for making progress on Dementia United pledges and offer GM an opportunity to collectively, as well as locally, make improvements for people with dementia and their carers.
Delirium and Hydration Awareness Poster for staff [PDF]
We’ve created public and staff facing posters and leaflets to encourage hydration and educate people on the link between dehydration and delirium.
Delirium and Hydration Awareness Poster public facing [PDF]
We’ve created public and staff facing posters and leaflets to encourage hydration and educate people on the link between dehydration and delirium.
Delirium and Hydration Awareness Leaflet public facing [PDF]
We’ve created public and staff facing posters and leaflets to encourage hydration and educate people on the link between dehydration and delirium.
Greater Manchester Public Facing Delirium Leaflet: Longer Version [PDF]
This leaflet provides information on how to recognise delirium and what to do about it
Greater Manchester Public Facing Delirium Leaflet: Shorter Version [PDF]
This leaflet provides information on how to recognise delirium and what to do about it
Greater Manchester Public Facing Delirium Leaflet: Translated versions
These are available in sixteen languages: audio, print and video.
These two Greater Manchester evidence-based toolkits have been developed by Dementia United with partners and stakeholders, including people with lived experience.
Community Delirium Toolkit Contents
This toolkit is based on national evidence and includes resources for both clinicians and people with delirium and their families.
Community Delirium Toolkit Training Resources
A range of resources that provide useful learning for anyone using either Delirium Toolkit.
Hospital Delirium Toolkit
This toolkit is based on national evidence and includes resources for both clinicians and people with delirium and their families.
Raising awareness for support staff and family carers. [PDF]
This document provides resources for support staff, family members and carers.
Resources for practitioners, managers and qualified staff [PDF]
This document contains a range of resources and toolkits.
Greater Manchester delirium approach and seven key standards [PDF]
We recommend this as a person-centred pathway for those susceptible to delirium.
Dementia United collated education and training opportunities [PDF]
UCL Rules of Thumb Guide for End of Life Care for people with Dementia [PDF]
This guide is for any healthcare professionals providing care and support for people with dementia at the end of life.
Dementia United's Greater Manchester syllabus for training on end of life care of those with dementia [PDF]
This syllabus was agreed with input from health and care professionals and carers, using evidence based good practice literature.
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) describes problems with mental abilities such as memory or thinking that can develop into dementia if untreated.
Alzheimer's Society - Mild cognitive impairment
This page on the Alzheimer's Society's website explains what mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is and tells you about some of the main symptoms.
Information for patients diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Greater Manchester [PDF]
You have been diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment. What happens next? Download this leaflet for more information.
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) - A Guide for Professionals
Watch this film to find out more about Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). This film supports the work of Dementia United and we encourage you to use this to help raise awareness of joint working around MCI amongst health care, social care and the voluntary sector.
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) - A Guide for the Public
Watch this film to hear from people living with MCI and professionals about why it is important to identify MCI - funded by the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network and created in partnership with Age UK Trafford.
Greater Manchester Approach to Mild Cognitive Impairment [PDF]
In the absence of specific NICE guidance on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Dementia United co-produced this document to recommend a pathway for patients once diagnosed with MCI. This is a new and emerging area, energised by exciting evidence demonstrating impact in the prevention or delay of dementia by adopting lifestyle changes and the promise of new treatments which may prevent or delay dementia in the future.
Living with Dementia Toolkit - downloadable guide
The guide is available in English and in Welsh. It introduces the toolkit and the resources available.
Dementia Tip Share
A Treasure Chest of Tips: to help you to keep living as well as you can. From people with dementia, for people with dementia
Dementia diaries
A platform for people living with dementia to record their thoughts.
After Diagnosis of Dementia: what to expect from health and care services
Download this guide to the support people should get from local services in England if they or someone they know have been diagnosed with dementia.
Connecting People, Connecting Support
An online space where people with dementia, family members and care staff can access post-diagnostic materials informed by their research programme
National Dementia Action Alliance Dementia Statements.pdf [PDF]
The new Dementia Statements reflect the things people with dementia say are essential to their quality of life
Each day is different: An introduction to the care and support of people with dementia
This page on the Alzheimer's Society's website provides someone starting out in dementia care with an introduction to what they might expect in the first few weeks.
Resources for GPs
This link will take you to the Alzheimer's Society website which provides resources and information about how to support people affected by dementia.
How to help people with dementia: A guide for customer-facing staff [PDF]
Download this publication to read how small actions can make a big difference when you are serving customers with dementia.
Delirium Awareness Video #icanpreventdelirium
Produced by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Risk reduction and management of delirium
This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the detection, assessment, treatment and follow up of adults with delirium, as well as reducing the risk of delirium.
Delirium digital pathway at Salford Royal
Watch this video to see how Salford Royal have created a new digital pathway which is improving the way they diagnose and treat patients with delirium.
A Greater Manchester Approach to Young Onset and Rare Dementia [PDF]
This document aas been created following a 2 year consultation and information exchange with a task and finish group, locality multi-disciplinary teams and experts at the Cerebral Function Unit (CFU) in Salford.
Cerebral Function Unit at Salford Royal
The Cerebral Function Unit is a regional clinical service for the investigation, diagnosis and care of early-onset and rare neurodegenerative dementias.
Young Dementia Network
A community of people living with young onset dementia, their family and friends, as well as professionals who work in the field of health and social care and voluntary sector
Decision-making guide for GPs - Young Dementia Network
The Young Dementia Network has developed a Decision-making guide for GPs, endorsed by the Royal College of GPs, to aid the recognition of the symptoms of dementia in younger people
Pennine Care Video 1 - An introduction to frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Pennine Care Older People's Mental Health Team in Stockport have co-produced 3 videos to help raise awareness amongst professionals and the public to better recognise frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – especially GPs who may be the first port of call when someone is concerned about their symptoms. The videos are also an excellent resource for formal and informal carers to understand what it is like to live with and care for someone with FTD with practical tips and advice.
Pennine Care Video 2 - Getting Help and Support with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
Pennine Care Older People's Mental Health Team in Stockport have co-produced 3 videos to help raise awareness amongst professionals and the public to better recognise frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – especially GPs who may be the first port of call when someone is concerned about their symptoms. The videos are also an excellent resource for formal and informal carers to understand what it is like to live with and care for someone with FTD with practical tips and advice.
Pennine Care Video 3 - Living with Changes in Behaviour in Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
Pennine Care Older People's Mental Health Team in Stockport have co-produced 3 videos to help raise awareness amongst professionals and the public to better recognise frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – especially GPs who may be the first port of call when someone is concerned about their symptoms. The videos are also an excellent resource for formal and informal carers to understand what it is like to live with and care for someone with FTD with practical tips and advice.
Film: Speech and Language Therapy for those with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Through the work of Dementia United, it was identified there was a need for more public information about rarer dementias including Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). It is hoped that further information may help people with PPA better access services. Together with Pennine Care NHS Trust, this video was created for people who have recently had a diagnosis of PPA and the people that care for them. It provides a summary of the support you may access from Speech and Language Therapy
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