The Later Life Specialist Library’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update aims to provide healthcare professionals with a clear path to the most important recent evidence surrounding the five major types of dementias: Alzheimer’s; Vascular dementia; Dementia with lewy bodies; Frontotemporal dementia; and mixed dementias.
This site contains the best available evidence to support people making later life health care decisions. This includes content from a variety of sources:
- Guidance from NICE, SIGN and various professional colleges and societies
- Evidence based reviews from the NLH Clinical Knowledge Summaries, Bandolier and Evidence-Based journals
- Systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library and DARE
- Key publications and best practice articles from the Department of Health and WHO
Patient information from UK charities
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