Guidelines on psycho-social interventions
Psychosocial interventions
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 |
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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 |
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Behandlungsleitlinie Demenz (2000) | Psychiatrist, psychotherapists, neurologists | German society for psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neurology | Evidence-based and expert consensus |
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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. |
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Zur Betreuung Demenzkranker in Tagespflegeeinrichtungen | Professionals in dementia care | Deutschen Expertengruppe Dementenbetreuung (formal caregivers daycare) | Expert opinion-consensus |
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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 |
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Richtlijnen voor verzorgenden (depressie en apathie) (2004) | Formal caregivers | Netherlands institute for health services research (NIVEL) | Evidence-based |
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NHG-standaard dementie(2003) | General practitioners | General practitioners, professionals | Evidence-based |
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Dementie (gezondheidsraad) (2002) | Policy makers | Health council of the Netherlands | Policy driven |
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Richtlijn probleemgedrag (2002) | Nursing home physicians | Dutch Society of Nursing home physicians (NVVA) | Evidence-based and consensus |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Care Homes for Older People, National Minimal Standards (2002) | Care homes | Department of Health | Policy driven |
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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 |
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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 |
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Guidelines for the primary care management of dementia (1998) | General practitioners | North of England evidence based guidelines development project | Evidence-based |
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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 |
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Comprehensive care for dementia (2002) | Health care practicioners. | Public Sanitary System of Andalucía | Policy driven |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dementia Spanish consensus (2000) | Psychiatrist | Spanish Society of Psychiatry | Policy driven |
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Dementia. Guideline (1999) | GPs | Spanish Society of Familiar and Communitary Medicine | Policy driven |
Last Updated: Friday 14 November 2014