SHARING THE DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA IN THE POST-COVID CLINIC: PATIENT AND PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES

During the COVID-19 pandemic, memory clinics had to rapidly transform services in order to meet the needs of patients while attending to infection control concerns. This study considered the experiences of delivering and receiving a dementia diagnosis during this time. The findings highlight what is important to the person with dementia and their family and provide lessons from the pandemic for future practice.

This study was co-produced by “BUDDs” (Better Understanding Dementia Diagnosis). This Group is made up of people with lived experience of dementia and researchers. The co-productive approach allowed for the personal knowledge and understanding of living with dementia, to enrich the research process and outcome. BUDDs met regularly throughout the project using an online platform to work together on the planning, analysis and reporting of the study.

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This six-part series explores the assessment and diagnosis of dementia, and telephone and digital assessment introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. We also discuss the research aiming to better understand the perspectives of both the person receiving a diagnosis and healthcare professionals through exploring the emotional, practical and ethical impacts of the changes.

This series is co-produced with the BUDDs (Better Understanding Dementia Diagnosis) lived experience stakeholder advisory group & researchers at Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre & Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (ECRED).