What wonderful work, Pete. Experience of, &participation in, art &creativity is vital for good MH. You'll have to tell me more about your role when you can.

I'm a RMN: dementia my whole nursing career: specialist psych ward, CMHT/MemoryClinic, PrimaryCare - &now General Hospital Liaison &Outreach

Volunteers needed for the DIADEM study!

🔍 We’re looking for participants for a study to explore if computerised hearing tests can help diagnose individuals attending memory clinics. 🧠👂

#Research #HearingTests #MemoryClinic #NHS

1. Assessment of #cognitive function is a key part of #dementia diagnostic process- but many people attending #MemoryClinic have #VisualImpairment. Standard cognitive tests have vision-dependent items which often get omitted, leaving gaps in the assessment and making scores difficult to interpret

Bradford District Care Trust senior leadership event today, looking at how we can use AI to improve productivity and service quality. #IAPT services already using this, have reduced wait times and sustained recovery rates even though referrals up 20%. Could we use similar in #memoryclinic?
#MedSky

#BrainHealthClinic this morning- identifying modifiable dementia risk factors and agreeing an action plan to address them, with signposting to resources to support this if needed. Well received, people seem to like the approach. Will they stick to their plans? Ask me in 6 months…
#MCI
#memoryclinic

Met with Bradford District & Craven Health Care Partnership colleagues to discuss #dementia prevention- #brainhealth pilot funded by the HCP for people with #MCI in the Affinity Primary Care Network- also pilot brain health clinic in BDCFT #memoryclinic. Watching developments with interest.

Another use of the Hearing Impaired MoCA today- the person in clinic was unable to hear, to the point that history was taken using written notes- but MoCA-HI still enabled a meaningful assessment of cognitive functioning to be completed. #cognitiveassessment #memoryclinic
mocacognition.com/paper/

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjE7gSv8/

Don't forget to offer genetic testing to individuals with #dementia - consider a higher cutoff of 65y for early-onset dementia. bit.ly/45vCRwm #MemoryClinic #NeuroGenetics