about the dementia roadmap

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

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Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

Rationale

There is a wealth of information, guidance, tools

and resources which can optimise assessment

treatment and care …

BUT … this is difficult to access to support

effective diagnosis and treatment from the

surgery desktop.

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

Key features

•  A coherent structure reflecting the dementia

journey

•  Signposting people to existing high quality

sources of information

•  Accessible and easy to use

•  Can be customised with local information

•  Available on mobile, tablet and desktop devices

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

A collaborative development

The Dementia Roadmap has been developed in a

partnership between the Royal College of General

Practitioners and the Department of Health. It is

hosted by Dementia Pathfinders Community

Interest Company (CIC)

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

Usage

27,766 sessions

21,872 users

91,287 pageviews

4 pages / session

3 mins per session

22% returning visitors

78% new visitors

Popular topics

•  Understanding-dementia

•  Diagnostic process

•  Post diagnosis support

•  Living well with dementia

Popular content

•  Helping you to assess cognition:

A practical toolkit for clinicians

•  Dementia diagnosis in primary care

•  Addenbrookes Cognitive Examination III

•  Six-item Cognitive Impairment Test

Feedback

We use the information within the Roadmap to reassure

patients and their carers by signposting them to local support

Our Roadmap helps us to refer

patients onto specialist services

The Roadmap is an incredibly useful

resource for anyone wanting to know more about dementia, and

the local services available

It’s helping us to provide better support after

diagnosis

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

Developing a local Roadmap

What we offer

•  Installation and technical support for your Roadmap

•  An easy to use content management system

•  High quality, expertly-curated information about nationally relevant resources and groups, organised across the main topics reflecting the dementia journey

•  Initial training and online learning environment

•  A bespoke visitor analytics dashboard, enabling you to analyse how your local population is using your Roadmap

•  Marketing materials

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

Developing a local Roadmap

What you need to contribute

•  Identify the lead organisation/s to commission and manage

your Dementia Roadmap subscription

•  Establish a local project team to oversee the work

•  Appoint an editor or editorial team to add information about

local groups and resources

•  Engage with local stakeholders and promote your Roadmap

Dementia Roadmap Helping primary care to support people with dementia

•  http://dementiaroadmap.info

•  enquiries@dementiaroadmap.info

•  @dementiaroadmap

•  facebook.com/dementiaroadmap

•  youtube.com/dementiaroadmap

Keep in touch

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