ArticleBMC primary care2022
A new model for general practice-led, regional, community-based, memory clinics.
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- Interventions to improve referrals from primary care to outpatient specialist services for chronic conditions: a systematic review and framework synthesis update.Systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Facing Dementia in Primary Care: Applying the COM-B Model to Develop a Complex Intervention to Improve Dementia Diagnosis Rates in General Practice.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Comparing Short Cognitive Screening Instruments in an Outreach Memory Clinic in Primary Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Annual Wellness Visits and Early Dementia Diagnosis Among Medicare Beneficiaries.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Enhancing post-diagnostic care in Australian memory clinics: Health professionals' insights into current practices, barriers and facilitators, and desirable support.Dementia (London, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDementia is a major international health issue with high impact on the patient, relatives, and broader society. Routine screening for dementia is limited, despite known benefit of early detection and intervention on quality of care and patient outcomes. Screening is particularly limited in rural and regional areas, despite high burden and projected growth of dementia in these populations. The current study aimed to implement a new general practitioner (GP) led, multidisciplinary, model of care providing dementia detection and referral pathway to a community-based specialist clinic across six regional general practices.
methodsCross-sectional analysis of dementia screening and referral characteristics in the St Anthony Family Medical Practices group based in the regional area of Loddon-Mallee, Victoria. Data were collected on demographics and relevant medical history. Cognitive state was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), GP Assessment of Cognition (GPCog), and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Referrals and referral outcomes were recorded for geriatrician, psycho-geriatrician, or both.
resultsEight hundred and eighteenth patients over 65 years were screened, accounting for approximately 24.2% of 65 and over presentations for the practice network. Of those screened, 68.9% were indicated for referral and 30.3% of these were successfully referred. Of the indicated patients who received referrals, 34.2% declined. Many who declined referral had intermediate scores on the cognitive assessments utilized.
conclusionStandardised models of care, integrated within community services, are necessary to improve access to early detection, referral and quality management of dementia. The St Anthony Memory Service model will be invaluable in informing future service development, and in particular the development of services for people living with dementia in rural and regional communities.
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