About this service
The Younger People with Dementia Service provides assessment, diagnosis and appropriate treatment and care interventions for adults (generally aged up to age 65) with dementia, and their families and carers. It is a service for people in Leeds provided within a variety of settings, including the person’s home environment which may be a care home, outpatient clinic and hospital consultation. You may be suitable for the service if you are of working age and have been experiencing some of the following symptoms for a minimum of six months: memory problems language changes attention or concentration difficulties behaviour, personality or mood changes coordination or balance issues. The aims of our service are to: investigate the cause of your memory problems provide support and advice to yourself, your family or significant others, to help them understand your problems and how best to support you provide any treatment for your memory problems and associated difficulties refer you to services that will be able to meet your needs discharge you from the service when you no longer need our support or when your needs can be better met by a more appropriate service. To make a referral into our service, GP referrers in Leeds please use the new Referral and Decision Support (RADS) tool. SystmOne practices can access the RADS tool by loading the “DART Referral Hub” template. An MS Word version of the tool has also been published for EMIS practices. Please email the completed form to our Single Point of Access [email protected]. If you would like to speak to a member of the team prior to referral or ask for advice, please call us on 0113 85 50547 or email [email protected] The team aim to get back to you within 24 hours of receiving your email.
The Younger People with Dementia Service provides assessment, diagnosis and appropriate treatment and care interventions for adults (generally aged up to age 65) with dementia, and their families and carers. It is a service for people in Leeds provided within a variety of settings, including the person’s home environment which may be a care home, outpatient clinic and hospital consultation. You may be suitable for the service if you are of working age and have been experiencing some of the following symptoms for a minimum of six months: memory problems language changes attention or concentration difficulties behaviour, personality or mood changes coordination or balance issues. The aims of our service are to: investigate the cause of your memory problems provide support and advice to yourself, your family or significant others, to help them understand your problems and how best to support you provide any treatment for your memory problems and associated difficulties refer you to services that will be able to meet your needs discharge you from the service when you no longer need our support or when your needs can be better met by a more appropriate service. To make a referral into our service, GP referrers in Leeds please use the new Referral and Decision Support (RADS) tool. SystmOne practices can access the RADS tool by loading the “DART Referral Hub” template. An MS Word version of the tool has also been published for EMIS practices. Please email the completed form to our Single Point of Access [email protected]. If you would like to speak to a member of the team prior to referral or ask for advice, please call us on 0113 85 50547 or email [email protected] The team aim to get back to you within 24 hours of receiving your email.