Useful national resources: quality of diagnosis

Please note these are collated from external organisations. Dementia United is not responsible for the content of the resources listed below

• Alzheimer’s Society: Dementia symptoms checklist. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-08/Dementia_Symptoms_Checklist.pdf
• Alzheimer’s Society: Diagnosing dementia guide to assessment leaflet. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Diagnosing dementia booklet.pdf
• Alzheimer’s Disease International Infographic – 10 warning signs of Dementia. https://www.alzint.org/u/updated-warning-signs-graphic_english_pdf.pdf (translations) https://www.alzint.org/resource/warning-signs-of-dementia-infographic/
• Alzheimer’s Research: Young onset dementia. https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/wp-content/plugins/mof_bl_0.2.9/downloads/YOD-0322-0324_WEB.pdf
• NICE: Informant questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly. https://patient.info/doctor/informant-questionnaire-on-cognitive-decline-in-the-elderly-iqcode
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia Unlocking Diagnosis: the key to improving the lives of people with dementia. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/sites/default/files/migrate/downloads/unlocking_diagnosis_all-party_parliamentary_group_report_2012.pdf
• SCIE: Dementia early signs & diagnosis (Multiple resources incl. research & case study activities). https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/symptoms/diagnosis/
• MindWell: Six item cognitive impairment test. https://www.mindwell-leeds.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/6CIT.pdf
• NHS e-learning for healthcare: Assessment and diagnosis of dementia: a personalised approach. https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/assessment-and-diagnosis-of-dementia-a-personalised-approach/
• Leeds Beckett University: Taking Memory Assessment Services into the Future: A guide to supporting continuous development, improvement and innovation in memory assessment services. https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/centre-for-dementia-research/sharing-good-practice-and-innovation-in-memory-assessment-services/
• Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & Brighton and Sussex Medical School                           : Remote Memory Assessment Toolkit (RMAS). https://www.bsms.ac.uk/research/neuroscience/cds/research/remote-memory-assessment-toolkit.aspx
• DCAN (Dementia Change Action Network). NextSteps website – support for people waiting for a memory assessment appointment. https://www.nextsteps.org.uk
• South Doc Services, Birmingham & Solihull Training Hub: GP Education Session: Identification and management of dementia (Webinar). ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSogS-8cqKw
• NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Clinical Networks: Memory Service Assessments: A New Way of Working. https://future.nhs.uk/gf2.ti/f/1009474/88882309.1/PDF/-/MSA%20-%20A%20New%20Way%20of%20Working%20revised%20Dec%202020.pdf
• Newcastle University: Diamond Lewy Toolkit (Lewy Body Dementia). https://research.ncl.ac.uk/diamondlewy/