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What happens after a diagnosis of dementia? My quick survey.

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By shibleyrahman in Dementia, NHS on October 18, 2014.

There’s been a lot of diagnosis on improving the diagnosis rates for dementia in primary care as a result of the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge.

This survey which you can take only once asks seven quick questions.

Each scenario is separate.

Choose the best option out of the choices given.

You can only choose one answer. There is no “correct” answer.

The questionnaire does not abruptly end. You need to scroll down to see beyond question 1.

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Dr Liam Farrell

Shibs, the questionnaire ends abruptly;maybe you should check it
http://www.sochealth.co.uk shibleyrahman

you need to scroll down (there’s a scroll bar on the right which will appear) – it works at my end?
http://gravatar.com/brizcox brizcox

Dear Shibley,

Thanks for the chance to participate. Do you want this circulated more widely?

Some personal reflections of caring for my mother with advanced dementia;
1. The diagnosis by a psychiatrist was the beginning of the end for choice, normalisation and any attempt at maintenance at home by health and social services.
2. The attempts to investigate any possible treatments and causes also stopped (my mother was on a very high level of oxygen due to COPD)
3. Management of risk becomes ever more conservative – agencies have a new legitimacy for absenting themselves from any care solutions that are potentially risky because of the diagnosis.

Therefore my personal choices would be to avoid single professional solutions, would rely more on voluntary and social action collective solutions and defer definitive diagnosis as long as possible.

Its an indictment of current services isn’t it?

Brian Cox
Derbyshire

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