Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update 2009: Contents

NHS Evidence - later life's Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update 2009 aims to provide healthcare professionals with a clear path to the most important recent evidence surrounding the five major types of dementia: Alzheimer’s; Vascular dementia; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Frontotemporal dementia; and Mixed dementias.

The Dementia AEU provides bibliographies on secondary research (systematic reviews, meta analyses and guidelines) from the last 18 months for the following topics:

  1. Definitions, Diagnosis and Screening
  2. Risk Factors and Aetiology
  3. Pharmacological Treatments
  4. Non-Pharmacological Treatments
  5. Rehabilitation, Practice and Care Standards
  6. Evidence on Other Dementias

 

Our bibliographies are presented in three sections:

Systematic reviews
Systematic reviews that have been published or updated in the last year.  Systematic reviews aim to find, assess and summarise all of the research that has been conducted on a specific topic.  We identify systematic reviews by checking the abstract for the key sections of a systematic review:  inclusion criteria, search strategy, study selection and evaluation, data extraction and statistical analysis.

Other reviews
This sub-section contains relevant reviews whose abstracts do not contain all of the key sections of a systematic review.  As such, some of these documents will be genuine systematic reviews, whilst others will be less rigorous overviews of the topic.  You should check the methods section to see if these reviews made sufficient efforts to find and include all of the relevant evidence.

Other important evidence
We use this category as a “catch-all” for studies, such as critical appraisals of individual trials, that are relevant but do not fit into either of the above two categories.

 

Recent 2008-2009 Guidelines

  1. Department of Health. Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy. 2009.
  2. Department of Health. Living well with dementia: the National Dementia Strategy joint commissioning framework for dementia. 2009.
  3. Department of Health. Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy Implementation Plan. 2009.
  4. Department of Health. Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent. 2008
  5. Royal College of Physicians. Long-term neurological conditions: management at the interface between neurology, rehabilitation and pallative care. 2008.

 Other Important Guidelines

  1. NICE. Alzheimer's disease - drug treatments. 2007.
  2. NICE. Commissioning Guides: Memory assessment service for the early identification and care of people with dementia. 2007.
  3. NICE. Dementia: supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care. 2006.
  4. NICE. Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine (review) and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 2007.
  5. Royal College of Psychiatrists. Copying clinical letters to patients: guidelines for old age psychiatrists. 2004.
  6. Royal College of Psychiatrists. Forgetful but not forgotten: assessment and aspects of treatment of people with dementia by a specialist old age psychiatry service. 2005.
  7. Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Position Paper: speech and language therapy provision for people with dementia. 2005.
  8. SIGN. Management of patients with dementia: a national clinical guideline. 2006.

International Guidelines

  1. American College of Physicians. Current pharmacological treatment of dementia: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. 2008.

 

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