Article of the month – October 2019

The Interdem website committee has chosen the following article as publication of the month October 2019: Sass, C., Burnley, N., Drury, M., Oyebode, J., & Surr, C. (2019). Factors associated with successful dementia education for practitioners in primary care: an in-depth case study. BMC medical education, 19(1), 393.

Doing research to identify the ingredients of good dementia care is one thing, transferring them to practice another. This article focuses on how to embed good dementia care in education for primary care professionals (e.g. general practitioners). That is an important professional group, caring for many people with dementia still living in the community. The article concludes with some key recommendations that everybody developing or giving dementia training should be aware of.

The article is available in open access at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186%2Fs12909-019-1833-2.pdf.