Your Trusted Guide to Dementia Care Resources
Navigating dementia care can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. We’ve curated a selection of trusted resources to support caregivers, families, and individuals at every stage of their journey. Explore expert tools, helpful guides, and local support options tailored to your needs.
Alzheimer’s Association
A leading organization offering education, resources, and support for families affected by Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care
Practical strategies, workshops, and educational content to help caregivers manage dementia-related challenges.
AGEucate Training Institute
The AGEucate Training Institute impacts people, organizations, and communities with powerful dementia training, innovative life engagement solutions and dynamic partner collaborations
DFS is an AFA-approved Memory Screening Site
What Is Memory Screening?
A memory screening is a simple and safe evaluation tool that checks memory and other thinking skills. It can indicate whether an additional check up by a qualified healthcare professional is needed.
- Various types of qualified healthcare professionals provide memory screenings, including social workers, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychologists and physicians.
- The face-to-face screening takes place in a private setting; only the individual being tested and the screener are present.
- A screening consists of a series of questions and/or tasks designed to test memory, language skills, thinking ability, and other intellectual functions.
- Screening tools identified by AFA’s Medical, Scientific and Memory Screening Advisory Board include the GPCOG (General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition), MINI-COG, MIS (Memory Impairment Screen) and BAS (Brief Alzheimer’s Screening). These four tests meet accepted criteria for use as a screening instrument: effective, easy to administer and validated by research, and AFA is able to offer the test for free for use during this event due to the generous permission of the copyright holders. AFA’s Medical, Scientific and Memory Screening Advisory Board welcomes the review of other instruments for possible consideration; please e-mail [email protected].
- The person who administers the screening will review the results with the person being screened, and suggest whether the person should follow up with a physician or other clinician for more extensive testing.
- Results of the memory screenings are confidential. The participant will receive the screening results to bring to a healthcare professional for follow-up and/or inclusion in medical files.