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Memory clinics
 — don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
Author(s)Romola Bucks
Journal titlePSIGE Newsletter, no 61, June /July 1997
PublisherPsychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, June /July 1997
Pagespp 16-19
KeywordsMemory disorders ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Dementia ; Psychiatric treatment.
AnnotationThis is a response to Mike Bender's article, "Memory clinics: locked doors on the gravy train" (PSIGE Newsletter no 56, October 1996). The author discusses four themes regarding psychologists' involvement in memory clinics: the status of the neuropsychology of the dementias; ethics and consent; treatment and treatment trials; and the organisation of dementia services as memory clinics. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-981110243 A
ClassmarkEH: L6G: EA: LP

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