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The British Journal of Psychiatry 150: 359-364 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Memory Clinic. A new approach to the detection of dementia

TJ Van der Cammen, JM Simpson, RM Fraser, AS Preker and AN Exton-Smith
Dijkzigt University Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Memory impairment is a salient and early feature of developing dementia, but in practice is often not recognised until it has reached an advanced stage. The operation described is of a Memory Clinic opened on an experimental basis at the Geriatric Research Unit, University College London, in 1983, with the aim of identifying the causes of memory impairment in the elderly, with particular reference to the early detection of dementia. It proved possible to identify a group of people with early dementia who had previously been undiagnosed, and also to reveal deficiencies in the utilisation of existing services. Memory clinics would be a valuable addition to geriatric and psychogeriatric services.


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