Menu of care options

Abstract

This chapter provides detailed information on the ‘Menu of care options’ that is attached to the International Schedule for the Integrated Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia (IDEAL schedule). It provides recommended priorities for interventions (although not all possible interventions) for each of the different symptoms and severity patterns of dementia, as measured by the IDEAL schedule. The chapter includes an overview of the ‘Menu of care options’, a full copy of the ‘Menu of care options’ itself (which can be applied across countries worldwide), and five country example tables of the ‘Menu of care options’—for the Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, India, and Nigeria—illustrating the kind of interventions that may be relevant in countries with different levels of resources and experience. The chapter also includes a sub-chapter on the ‘Dementia Networking’ approach used for dementia care in the Netherlands.