Rarer Dementias Study Day
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, Friday 18 May 2007
The Pick’s Disease Support Group and Alzheimer Scotland joined forces on 18 May 2007 to offer the first Rarer Dementias Study Day to take place in Scotland.
These rarer forms include Frontotemporal Dementia including Frontal Lobe Degeneration, Pick's Disease and Primary Progressive Aphasia, and Corticobasal Degeneration.
More than 100 people attended the study day to hear presentations on diagnosis, clinical aspects, the latest research, including genetics and scanning, and legal information. Delegates also heard a carer's perspective about living with and supporting someone with a rarer form of dementia.
Presentations
An overview of the unusual dementias & Frontotemporal dementia – research update (pdf 5mb)Dr Jonathan Rohrer Clinical Research Fellow, Dementia Research Centre, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London
Clinical features of FTD (pdf 1mb)
Dr. Peter Nestor Neurologist and MRC Research Associate, Cambridge Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit
Essential Legal Information For Carers (pdf 113kb)
David McClements Solicitor, Russel + Aitken LLP
Lanarkshire Early Onset Dementia Service (pdf 213kb)
Karen Reid Early Onset Dementia Nurse & Peter Bell Senior Charge Nurse, NHS Lanarkshire
Anne Cox, Carer, Glasgow. Presentation to follow.
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