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Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168]

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Burton JK, Soiza RL, Quinn TJ & On behalf of the SIGN 168 guideline development group (2024) Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168]. Age and Ageing, 53 (7), Art. No.: afae147. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae147

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The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have recently published their guideline SIGN168 on ‘Assessment, Diagnosis, Care, and Support for People with Dementia and their Carers’. The guideline makes evidence-based recommendations for best practice in the assessment, care and support of adults living with dementia. Topics featured in this guideline are limited to those prioritised by stakeholders, especially people with lived and living experience, and those not well covered under pre-existing guidance. We summarise the guideline recommendations related to identification and diagnosis of dementia, investigative procedures, postdiagnostic support living with dementia, including non-pharmacological approaches for distressed behaviours, using technology to support people with dementia, grief and dementia and changing needs of people with dementia. The guideline content is summarised as officially published, with additional commentary in the final section.

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Age and Ageing: Volume 53, Issue 7

StatusPublished
Publication date31/07/2024
Publication date online31/07/2024
Date accepted by journal02/07/2024
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/36385
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP)
ISSN0002-0729
eISSN1468-2834

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Professor Louise McCabe

Professor Louise McCabe

Professor, Dementia and Ageing

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