Identification and Care of Patients at Risk of Post Stroke Dementia
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Identification and Care of Patients at Risk of Post-Stroke Dementia
IRAS ID
191417
Contact name
Eugene Tang
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Research and Development
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Numbers of people with stroke or dementia are increasing because of our ageing population. These diseases are closely linked; they can both be caused by problems with the brain’s blood supply. Like stroke, the most common types of dementia are more common in people at high risk of heart disease and diabetes. In the year after a stroke, one in ten people can develop dementia; this is called post-stroke dementia (PSD). National standards are in place for the initial specialist care for people who have had a stroke. After six months of specialist care, the General Practitioner (GP) usually takes over the responsibility for follow up of patients who have had a stroke. Yearly check-ups with the GP are focused mainly on management of individual risk factors such as blood pressure. In England, a policy emphasis on improving dementia care has encouraged health professionals to identify people with dementia at an earlier stage in the illness; GPs and hospitals now undertake memory assessment in people at high risk. One high-risk group is people over 60 years who have had a stroke. However, specialist stroke services have no guidance on how to identify the stroke patients who are at the greatest risk of developing dementia. It is therefore unclear what happens to these individuals upon discharge from specialist services. The aim of this study is to critically review the care received by people who have had a stroke and are at high risk of dementia by describing current care provision from the perspectives of patients, carers and key professionals
REC name
London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/0133
Date of REC Opinion
17 Feb 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion