The National Dementia Office

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. Feedback, questions and comments always welcome via [email protected] 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