• About dementia
• Dementias
  • What is dementia?
    • Facts about dementia
    • Reversible dementias
    • Mixed dementia
    • Seven A's of dementia
    • Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Vascular dementia
  • Lewy body Dementia
  • Frontotemporal dementia
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Huntington's disease
  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
• Alzheimer's disease
  • What is Alzheimer's disease
    • Global Deterioration Scale
    • Changes in the brain
    • Common Questions
  • Warning signs & symptoms
    • 10 warning signs
    • Depression
  • Risk factors
  • Myth and reality about Alzheimer's disease
    • Aluminum
  • Stigma
  • Stages of Alzheimer's disease (what happens)
    • Early stage
    • Middle Stage
    • Late Stage
      • Medical intervention decisions
    • End of Life
      • Making decisions about end of life care
  • Impact of the disease
    • Impact on married couples
    • Impact on family and friends
• Diagnosis
  • Memory Screening
  • Getting a diagnosis
    • Assessments
    • Doctor's visits
  • Communicating the diagnosis
  • Life after diagnosis
    • First steps for families
• About the brain
  • Normal aging vs dementia
  • Brain health
    • Reduce your risk
    • Challenge yourself
    • Be socially active
    • Make healthy food choices
    • Be physically active
    • Reduce stress
    • Protect your head
    • Choose wisely
• Understanding behaviour
  • Delusions and hallucinations
  • Sundowning
  • Intimacy and sexuality
  • Apathy
• For health-care professionals
  • Culture change towards person-centred care
    • Person-centred care in long-term care homes
  • Screening and diagnosis
    • Summary of cognitive screening tests
  • Driving
  • Training and e-learning
  • Research
  • Tough issues

For health-care professionals

Caring for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is a long-term commitment for health-care providers.

From diagnosis until the end of life, health-care providers are called upon to support and treat not only the person with the disease, but caregivers as well.

This section includes information and resources to help physicians provide early diagnosis and to help all health-care providers support individuals and their families throughout the continuum of the disease.