Country

Title

Users

Developers

Policy driven/evidence based

France

Alzheimer's disease and related conditions - Diagnosis and treatment (HAS) (2008)

Professionals in dementia care for clinical practice

Haute Autorité de Santé

Evidence-based and expert consensus

RAPPORT sur la maladie d'Alzheimer et les maladies apparantées (OPEPS) (2005)

Health care policy makers

Medical experts

Policy driven – consensus

Switzerland

Diagnostik und Therapie der Alzheimer Krankheit: Ein Konsensus für die Schweiz

Medical specialists and general practitioners

Alzheimer Forum Schweiz: docters, med. Specialists

Evidence based - consensus

Ireland

An action plan for dementia (1999)

Professionals in dementia care + policy makers

National Council on Ageing and Older People

Policy driven

Italy

Guidelines for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease from the Italian association of psychogeriatrics (2005)

Clinical specialist (neurologists, geriatricians, psychiatrists)

Experts from the Italian Association of Psychogeriatrics

Evidence-based

Germany

Rahmenempfehlungen zum Umgang mit herausforderndem Verhalten bei Menschen mit Demenz (2006)

Formal caregivers in institutional care

Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe + das Institut für Pflegewissenschaft der Universität Witten/Herdecke

Policy-driven - Experts

Handlungsempfehlung zu Fixierung und freiheitsbeschränkenden Maßnahmen Demenzkranker (2001)

Professionals in dementia care

Deutschen Expertengruppe Dementenbetreuung (professionals dementia care)

Expert opinion-consensus

Behandlungsleitlinie Demenz (2000)

Psychiatrist, psychotherapists, neurologists

German society for psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neurology

Evidence-based and expert consensus

BDA Manuale-Demenz (1999)

General practitioners

German society for general practitioners

Clear and rapid information sheet for use in practice based on experts opinions/experiences.

Zur Betreuung Demenzkranker in Tagespflegeeinrichtungen

Professionals in dementia care

Deutschen Expertengruppe Dementenbetreuung (formal caregivers daycare)

Expert opinion-consensus

Netherlands

Diagnostiek en medicamenteuze behandeling van dementie (CBO) (2005)

Geriatricians, professionals

Geriatricians, professionals

Evidence-based

Landelijke Eerstelijns Samenwerkings Afspraak Dementie (LESA) (2005)

General practitioners and professional caregivers

General practitioners, professionals, professional caregivers

Evidence-based and consensus

Richtlijnen voor verzorgenden (depressie en apathie) (2004)

Formal caregivers

Netherlands institute for health services research (NIVEL)

Evidence-based

NHG-standaard dementie(2003)

General practitioners

General practitioners, professionals

Evidence-based

Dementie (gezondheidsraad) (2002)

Policy makers

Health council of the Netherlands

Policy driven

Richtlijn probleemgedrag (2002)

Nursing home physicians

Dutch Society of Nursing home physicians (NVVA)

Evidence-based and consensus

UK

Management of patients with dementia: A national clinical guideline (2006)

Health care professionals

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

Evidence-based

Dementia: Supporting People with Dementia and their Carers (2006)

Practitioners and service commissioners

Multidisciplinary team of health and social care professionals, a person with dementia, carers, and guideline methodologists (NICE-SCIE)

Evidence-based

Knowledge set for dementia (2006)

Social care workers

Skills for Care (employment interests, service users and carers and union and professional associations in social care)

National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) based on National Occupational Standards

Everybody's business. Integrated mental health services for older adults: a service development guide (2005)

Health and social care practitioners, guide for developing/improving mental health services

Department of Health

Policy driven

Care Homes for Older People, National Minimal Standards (2002)

Care homes

Department of Health

Policy driven

Guidelines for the management of agitation in dementia (2001)

Clinicians

Specialist old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, psychologists, general practitioners, and social scientists involved in the care of people with dementia in the UK and Ireland

Evidence-based

Modern standards and service models for older people (2001)

National Health Service, (local) government, people working with older people

National service framework for older people: Department of Health

Policy driven

Guidelines for the primary care management of dementia (1998)

General practitioners

North of England evidence based guidelines development project

Evidence-based

Spain

Guideline for dementia. Concepts, criteria and references for dementia patient assessment (2003)

Neurologist

Neurology Study Group on Behavior and Dementia

Policy driven

Attention coordinated for dementia patient (2002)

Health and social care practitioners

Spanish Multidisciplinary Group for the Coordinated Attention of a Patient with Dementia

Policy driven

Comprehensive care for dementia (2002)

Health care practicioners.

Public Sanitary System of Andalucía

Policy driven

Guide of quality criteria in social and sociosanitary centres: for elderly people in nursing homes (2002)

Health and social care practitioners working in social centres and residents

Authors: Jose A. De-Santiago and J. Zurro

Policy driven

Coordinated Attention of the Patient with Dementia (2001)

Health and social care practitioners

Working Group for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias of Late Life

Policy driven

Dementia Spanish consensus (2000)

Psychiatrist

Spanish Society of Psychiatry

Policy driven

Dementia. Guideline (1999)

GPs

Spanish Society of Familiar and Communitary Medicine

Policy driven