Protection against discrimination in national dementia guideline recommendations: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

National dementia guidelines provide recommendations about the most effective approaches to diagnosis and interventions. Guidelines can improve care, but some groups such as people with minority characteristics may be disadvantaged if recommended approaches are the same for everyone. It is not known if dementia guidelines address specific needs related to patient characteristics. The objectives of this review are to identify which countries have national guidelines for dementia and synthesise recommendations relating to protected characteristics, as defined in the UK Equality Act 2010: age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Methods and findings

We searched CI

SUBMITTER: James T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature