The National Dementia Office
Sep 14, 2022•38 min
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Episode description
To mark World Alzheimer’s Day, in this episode, Edel McDaid (IGS HSCP Rep) talks to Kate Brennan, Fiona Foley and Mairead Bracken-Scally from the National Dementia Office.
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Links to resources discussed in the podcast:
- Dementia: Understand Together https://www.understandtogether.ie/
- Dementia Pathways website: https://dementiapathways.ie/
- National Dementia Office Education and Resource Programmes: http://dementiapathways.ie/permacache/fdd/cf3/354/66ab8fb0598a61c093695382f68dcfbc.pdf
- Second Irish National Audit of Dementia in acute hospitals (INAD-2) report: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/irish-national-audit-of-dementia-care-in-acute-hospitals.pdf
- National Clinical Guideline No. 21 (Appropriate prescribing of psychotropic medication for non-cognitive symptoms in people with dementia): https://healthservice.hse.ie/filelibrary/onmsd/appropriate-prescribing-of-psychotropic-medication-for-non-cognitive-symptoms-in-people-with-dementia.pdf
- Guidance document on non-pharmacological interventions for non-cognitive symptoms of dementia: https://healthservice.hse.ie/filelibrary/non-cognitive-symptoms-of-dementia-guidance-document.pdf
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