..., take many forms. In the UK, most care home residents’ medical care is provided by General Practitioners (GPs), many with no specialist training in the care of older people. Evidence suggests that the quality and availability of primary care to care homes is variable (O’Dea et al., 2000...

... of a Dementia Collaborative Project in North West Kent. The project, working through a primary care practice, aimed to raise awareness of dementia and to facilitate early intervention and access to specialist dementia services. Using an evaluation methodology adopted by the Collaborative and working through...

...Steve Iliffe The boundaries between what is a healthy response to stress and anxiety and what is abnormal are often difficult to determine, especially in primary care. Even symptoms of conditions such as psychoses and dementia can present as relatively normal behaviour. This paper considers...

...Alison Culverwell; Alisoun Milne; Reinhard Guss; Jackie Tuppen Despite evidence that early identification of dementia is of growing policy and practice significance in the UK, limited work has been done on evaluating screening measures for use in primary care. The aim of this paper is to offer...

...‐relationships. The views of staff may be helpful to the development of planning and quality mechanisms. While they cannot substitute for those of users and carers, they are views emanating from experience and concern. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Dementia Primary care Practitioners Service provision...