Conferences – Dementia Services Information and Development Centre https://dementia.ie Awareness Through Education Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:12:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://dementia.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-dementia-favicon-32x32.png Conferences – Dementia Services Information and Development Centre https://dementia.ie 32 32 Radiography and Radiation Therapy Study Day on Dementia https://dementia.ie/2022/02/radiography-and-radiation-therapy-study-day-on-dementia-2/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:59:31 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=9411

Dr. Anita O'Donovan

Best Practice Guidelines

Dr. Aisling Denihan

Dementia Tour

Dr. David Robinson

Capacity and Consent

Dr. Anita O'Donovan

Environmental Design

Cecilia Craig

Unusual Behaviours
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Programme of Events

Presentations

Overview of dementia and diagnosis

Dr Oisin Hannigan – Specialist Registrar in Geriatric Medicine

 

Diagnostic Service Model

Diana Burgui – Social Worker, Memory Clinic

 

Capacity and Consent

Dr David Robinson – Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine

 

Dementia Environmental Design

Jessica Flood – RadiationTherapist

 

Changes in Behaviour and Relationship Centred Approach

Cecilia Craig – Education Officer – DSIDC

 

Best Practice Guidelines for Radiography and Radiotherapy

Anita O’Donovan – Asst. Prof Radiation Therapy – Trinity College

]]> Memory Assessment Services Ireland – 30th May 2019 https://dementia.ie/2019/05/memory-assessment-services-ireland-30th-may-2019/ Thu, 30 May 2019 15:23:06 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=898 Read more]]> The Dementia Services Information & Development Centre organised a meeting to provide a forum for the memory assessment services of Ireland to discuss their future direction and to possibly find common ground in the areas of diagnostics, disclosure of diagnosis, post-diagnostic support and people with a young onset of dementia.

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Click here to download all Memory Clinic Conference 2019 Presentations

 

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National Gallery of Ireland 15th November 2018

On 15th November 2018 the DSIDC and MISA, Creative Life, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland presented “One Thursday at the Gallery”.  The event brought together expert speakers and practitioners who explored the extraordinary impact that the arts can have on the lives of those people who are living with a dementia.  Speakers both national and international discussed art, theatre and music in the morning and the afternoon was set aside for Azure workshops, Virtual Reality and a Silent Disco. The conference proved to be a great success and provided an excellent opportunity for information sharing and networking amongst individuals inspired by the impact the arts can have on people living with a dement

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Speakers

  • Sinéad Kathy Rice, Head of Education, National Gallery of Ireland
  • Professor Davis Coakley, Director MISA Creative Life & Emeritus Professor Trinity College Dublin
  • Chair for the day: Professor Philip Napier
  • Karen Meenan
  • Órla Hora
  • Bairbre-Ann Harki
  • Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire
  • Dr. Catherine Jordan
  • Dana Walrath
  • Veronica Franklin Gould
  • Dr. Tara Byrne
  • Ronan Smith

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]]> Memory Clinic Conference 8 “Strategies for Preventing Dementia” https://dementia.ie/2018/06/memory-clinic-conference-8-strategies-for-preventing-dementia/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:16:58 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=408 Read more]]> The 8th Annual Memory Clinic Conference took place on Friday 8th June 2018 in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute and was hosted by the DSIDC and Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing.

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The conference explored strategies to prevent dementia and the potential to improve outcomes for the person with dementia and those at risk.  Presentations from the conference are now available.

Welcome

Professor Brian Lawlor: Download presentation

Knowledge and awareness of dementia in Ireland – the journey towards ensuring that we all Understand Together

Presented by Dr Desmond Hickey: Download presentation

How to Intercept prodromal Lewy Body Disorders? The case of REM sleep behaviour disorder

Presented by Prof Dario Arnaldi: Download presentation

Lost and Found: Memory, Identity, and Who we become when we are no longer ourselves 

Presented by Dr Jules Montague : Download presentation

Stroke and Dementia

Presented by Prof Sarah Pendlebury

Mediterranean diet and cognition: epidemiology and mechanisms

Presented by Prof Nikolaos Scarmeas : Download presentation

Xanthophyll Carotenoids and the Brain: A nutritional approach to enhance cognitive function

Presented by Prof John Nolan: Download presentation

The Improbable Effectiveness of Cognitive Training – How to Explain it?”

Presented by Prof Ian Robertson: Download presentation

]]> Memory Clinic Conference – 16th June 2017 https://dementia.ie/2017/06/memory-clinic-conference-16th-june-2017/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:46:28 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=902 Read more]]> Click here to download Programme

Professor Brian Lawlor, Director of the MIRA Memory Clinic

It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to our 7th Memory Clinic Conference co-hosted by DSIDC and Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. This year’s conference theme is ‘The difficult to diagnose dementias’. Many cases of dementia can be hard to diagnose, particularly in the face of co-morbidities and where there are behavioural and personality changes and an overlap with psychiatric illness. The multidisciplinary, multi-professional approach of a Memory Clinic has much to offer in this regard as it can provide access to different specialties, imaging modalities and biomarker testing that can be helpful and informative in these challenging situations. While the Memory Clinic Network is growing throughout Ireland and there are many committed clinicians providing a great service from within existing resources, we need strategic thinking and forward planning if we are to develop the best assessment service for our patients. The National Dementia Strategy quite rightly puts emphasis on the training, education and upskilling of GPs in dementia diagnosis and management; however, GPs still need the support of secondary care specialists and tertiary care Memory Clinic services for confirmation of the diagnosis of dementia particularly in the more complex and atypical cases. It would be both impractical and financially unviable to have a Memory Clinic in every town. However, I would argue that a regional network of Memory Clinics that have the appropriate staffing, neuropsychological expertise and imaging modalities and that links back to a primary care system with the right support services in place, including the full array of allied health professionals, would go a long way to fill the current gaps in access and care.

This conference will deal with the assessment and management of the difficult to diagnose cases, the very cases that warrant specialist assessment in our Memory Clinics. We will hear the latest information on fronto-temporal dementia from Professor Tim Lynch and Dr Ted Huey. Professor Julie Snowden will be exploring the difficulties in diagnosing and managing semantic dementia. We will also learn about the sometimes controversial area of alcoholic dementia from Professor Ken Wilson. Dr Justin Kinsella will discuss the topic of genetic Alzheimer’s disease, a subject that families are often concerned about. Dr. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh and Dr Mircea Balasa will speak on dementia in the homeless community and CSF biomarkers to support AD diagnosis respectively and Dr. Clodagh Power will review the relatively new concept of behavioural variant phenocopies.

This conference is an opportunity to learn something new about dementia but most importantly to renew old acquaintances, make new friends and colleagues and to grow and develop our Memory Clinics network. We hope to have the Healthlink national standardised electronic referral form for Memory Clinics up and running over the next number of months and trial a new Memory Clinic teleconferencing initiative later this year. There’s lots happening in the Memory Clinics space and let’s continue to build out our network!

Speakers

Dr Mircea Balasa – Click here to download presentation

Mircea Balasa is a cognitive neurologist with a medical degree from Lérida University in Spain. He is currently working at the Alzheimer’s Unit at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, where he served as Chief Resident in Neurology. Balasa received the Emili Letang Award in 2010, at the close of his residency.

Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh – Click here to download presentation

Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is an Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine Physician in St James’s Hospital and Assistant Professor in Medical Gerontology. Her clinical and research interests centre around the health of multiply excluded individuals: homeless people, injecting drug users and other marginalised groups.

Dr Clodagh Power – Click here to download presentation

Dr Clodagh Power graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2008. After completing her medical BST she began training in Psychiatry with the TCD Deanery. She is currently completing a 2 year clinical and research fellowship with the MIRA Memory Clinic.

Prof Julie Snowden – Click here to download presentation

Julie Snowden is consultant neuropsychologist in the Cerebral Function Unit, Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. She is also honorary Professor of Neuropsychology in the University of Manchester.

Prof Ken Wilson – Click here to download Presentation

Professor Ken Wilson has spent much of his working life in the research into depression in older people. Clinically, he has been involved in working with people under the age of 65 suffering from dementia. This field of expertise provided a springboard for the development of services for people with alcohol related brain damage (ARBD). Apart from running a small NHS team that specialises in the management and cognitive/behavi oural rehabilitation of people with ARBD, he also works with community alcohol treatment services in the recognition and adaptation of services to cater for people with less severe cognitive damage. Prof Wilson was lead editor in developing the National Guidelines for the management of Alcohol Related Brain Damage (RCPsych CR185).

]]> 6th Annual Memory Clinic Conference Friday 17th June 2016 https://dementia.ie/2016/06/6th-annual-memory-clinic-conference-friday-17th-june-2016/ Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:14:18 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=692 Read more]]> Dementia: Addressing the Risk Factors

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The 6th Annual Memory Clinic Conference took place on Friday 17th June 2016 in the Trinity Sciences Centre, St James’s Hospital.   The conference was jointly hosted by the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) and the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre (DSIDC), the conference entitled “Dementia: Addressing the Risk Factors,” focused on the potential to address the modifiable risk factors with a view to prevention of dementia.   Professor Nick Fox gave the keynote address for the day with a thought provoking account on the prospects for presymptomatic treatment trials.  Professor Richard Cheston explored the importance of recognising existential concerns and how this knowledge helped inform post-diagnostic support.  The morning was rounded off with a “mini-symposium” based around the three Genio-funded hospital dementia projects.

Dr Siobhan Kennelly (Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown) discussed the Memory Assessment Support Clinic and Telementoring service; Dr Suzanne Timmons presented on environmental changes that have been made in Mercy Hospital, Cork; and  Dr Geraldine McMahon talked about the development of a dementia care pathway for patients accessing the Emergency Department in St James’s Hospital, Dublin.  In the afternoon we were delighted to welcome Professor Sarah Lamb who discussed designing and evaluating exercise interventions for people with dementia; John Costello, solicitor, who informed the audience of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)Act 2015.  Dr Anne Marie Miller presented on the clinical use of spinal fluid biomarkers in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.

The conference was attended by over 120 healthcare professionals and feedback from the audience was extremely positive.

Presentations

Professor Richard Cheston

Noticing fears of loss of control – the importance of recognising existential concerns about dementia

 

Dr Siobhan Kennelly

Creating Pathways of care in Dementia

 

 

Dr Suzanne Timmons

Improving the hospital built environment: more than just way-finding

 

 

 

Professor Sarah Lamb

Designing and Evaluating Exercise Interventions for People with Dementia

 

 

 

John Costello

Presentation Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015

Capacity Act 2015

 

 

 

Dr Anne-Marie Miller

The clinical use of spinal fluid biomarker testing for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis

 

 

 

 

(L-R) Professor Sarah Lamb, Dr Anne-Marie Miller, Mr John Costello, Dr Geraldine McMahon, Professor Brian Lawlor, Dr Suzanne Timmons, Dr Aisling Denihan and Dr Siobhan Kenelly

]]> DSIDC Annual Conference Thursday 19th November 2015 https://dementia.ie/2015/11/dsidc-annual-conference-thursday-19th-november-2015/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:01:40 +0000 https://faithful-skyline.flywheelsites.com/?p=673 Read more]]> The theme of the 2015 Conference was dementia education.  The conference focussed on a number of interventions designed to inform and develop not only people’s understanding of dementia but also to improve our caregiving practice.  Speakers, both from Ireland and the continent, discussed topics ranging from the education of younger people and family caregivers through to the training of a variety of healthcare professionals including GPs.

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Presentations

Professor Bob Woods

Staff Training “Will we ever Learn”

 

 

 

Dr Suzanne Timmons

Towards better dementia care – Across healthcare settings:

Focus on acute hospital care

 

 

 

Ms Daisy Robson

Creating a Dementia Friendly Generation

 

 

 

 

Dr Tony Foley

Dementia Educational Interventions in Primary Care: What Works

 

 

 

Dr Aideen Lewis

Carer Education: An Education in Self

 

 

 

Dr Wilhelmina Hoffman

Education for Quality of Life

 

 

 

Dr Kate Irving

New Developments in the Dementia Skills Elevator

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The fifth National Memory Clinic Conference was held on Friday, 27th March 2015 in Trinity College Dublin. Jointly supported by the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) and Dementia Services Information and Development Centre (DSIDC), the conference entitled “New Directions, New Dimension in Dementia,” focused on significant changes to the dementia landscape over the last five years and addressed some of the issues arising out of those changes. A mixture of national and international expert speakers addressed those with an interest in dementia and multidisciplinary staff working in some of the 17 memory clinics around the country covering topics such as the National Dementia Strategy, Neurocognitive Consequences of Sport Concussion, Driving and Dementia, epilepsy and memory loss, brain scanning in dementia, and a proposed national referral system for publicly funded Memory Clinics.

Amongst those addressing the conference was Dr Tony Foley, lecturer in the Department of General Practice in UCC, who was an advisor to the working group for the Irish National Dementia Strategy. Speaking at the conference Dr Foley said, “The National Dementia Strategy, which was launched in December 2014 will be an important guide for government policy over the next few years and a key tool in helping healthcare and community professionals understand best practise when it comes to clinical pathways and guidelines whilst providing better information about community and other supports.”

The conference was attended by over 150 healthcare professionals.

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Professor John T O’Brien

“Brain imaging for the diagnosis of people with suspected dementia”

Dr Chris Soraghan

“Towards a national referral system for Memory Clinics”

Marie Lalor

“Towards a national referral system for Memory Clinics”

Dr Thomas Bak

“Dementia as a Motor Disorder”

Dr Tony Foley

“The diagnostic debate in General Practice: PREPARED for Action”

Professor Adam Zeman

“Accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical amnesia”

Anuraj Varshney

“Impact of Dementia on Driving and the role of the Forum of Mobility Centres in UK”

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Welcome to the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre’s annual national conference.  Our conference theme this year is Young Onset Dementia, an illness affecting some 4000 people under the age of 65 years in Ireland.  Representing only about one in ten of all people with dementia in Ireland, this small but very significant group of people have distinctive medical, social, emotional, psychological and financial needs that straddle the boundaries of various service sectors including, older peoples health and social care services and mental health and disability services.  In Ireland to date, this group of people have been hugely overlooked and their struggles and difficulties have by and large remained hidden except to themselves and their family members directly affected.

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Professor John Keady

Younger People with Dementia: Planning, Practice and Development

Per Kristian Haugen

People with Early Onset Dementia “A Special Group with Special Needs?”

 

Dr Siobhan Hutchinson

Young Onset Dementia: Different Disorders? Different Experiences? Perspectives from a Young Onset Dementia Clinic

Professor Brian Lawlor

Early Onset Dementia: The Case for Early Diagnosis

Professor Simon Mead

Next Generation Sequencing: Approaches to Diagnosis of Genetic Causes of Dementia

Professor Mary McCarron

Responding to Early Onset Dementia in Persons with Down Syndrome: Award Winning Approaches to Assessment and Care

 

Gerry Martin

Younger Onset Dementia and the National Dementia Strategy

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