The questions answered in this podcast are listed below.
They were compiled by GPs and health professionals around Australia.

1. Who do we screen, at what age and how often do you repeat these tests?
2. Patients with total global amnesia, are they at higher risk
3. Menopausal women with persistent brain fog – are they at higher risk?
4. How do we differentiate between normal age memory decline vs dementia?
5. Women being at higher risk – is it because of their longevity?
6. What’s the purpose of developing tools and how sensitive are they?
7. Genetic testing – for whom and the cost?
8. Whom to refer which patients too?
9. Is diet a factor? What to do for vegans who don’t eat fish? What is safe drinking?
10. Is Souvenaid affective?
11. What does Dementia Australia do? Do they help families and patients with NDIS applications?
12. What other resources and tools are available, in English and other languages?
13. Where do you see GPs needing more help in becoming more confident in managing patients with dementia and how can they gain more skill and knowledge to help patients in a timely manner and not clog up the currently strained system with less appropriate referrals

Guest: Dr Marita Long, General Practitioner

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 41 mins

Additional resources:

DTA resources

• GP dementia resources, training and education support | Dementia Training Australia
• Podcasts | Dementia Training Australia

NDIS

• Younger Onset Dementia and the NDIS

Dementia Australia

• Genetics of dementia
• Normal ageing versus dementia

CALD resources

• Moving pictures
• Dementia Australia

Dementia risk reduction

• Cognitive Health and Dementia Risk Assessment | CogDrisk
• Fact Sheets for General Practitioners | CogDrisk

Cognitive Assessment Tools

• GPCOG
• Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) | Demenia Australia
• Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment Tool (KICA) | Dementia Australia
• Paper | MOCA
• Diagnostic dementia tests | University of Sydney
• ARIC
• Mini-Cog
• University of Melbourne | Let’s chat Dementia Resources

Courses

• Preventing Dementia MOOC | University of Tasmania
• Understanding Dementia MOOC

Healthed resources

• Dementia prevention strategy
• Strategies to Mitigate Cognitive Decline and Early Dementia – Lecture
• Mild cognitive impairment podcast series
• Prioritising dementia risk reduction for women
• Dementia Prevention in Primary Care – A Mini Audit
• Dementia & MHT – Cause or correlation?
• Lots of ‘breakthroughs’, still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?
• A Leading Expert Answers GP Questions about the Early Signs of Dementia | Part one
• A Leading Expert Answers GP Questions about the Early Signs of Dementia | Part two