Dementia

HealthLink BC: Dementia

The Alzheimer's Society (UK) has a section on dementia with several useful factsheets. They address less common types of dementia, behavior challenges, communication, home care and caregiving concerns.  View topics

eMedicineHealth: Articles on Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia.

Other Resources:

• Dementia Research Centre (UK)
• Dementia: MedlinePlus  
• Memory and dementia. The Royal College of Psychiatry (UK)

• Association for Frontotemporal Dementias
• Frontotemporal dementia. Family Caregiver Alliance

• The Pick's Disease Support Group (UK)
• Pick's disease. Helpguide.org

• Dementia with Lewy bodies. Family Caregiver Alliance
• Lewy body disease. Helpguide.org
• Dementia with Lewy bodies information page. NINDS
• The Lewy Body Dementia Association, Inc

• Vascular dementia. Helpguide.org
• Multi-infarct dementia information page. NINDS

• Huntington's disease fact sheet. Family Caregiver Alliance
• Huntington's disease. Helpguide.org 
• Understanding behavior in Huntington disease, 80-page PDF. A practical guide for individuals, families and professionals coping with HD
• A caregivers handbook for advanced-stage Huntington disease, 57-page PDF. Huntington Society of Canada 

Page last modified or reviewed: March 18, 2009