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START for PDD & DLB

START for carers of people with Parkinson's Disease Dementia, and Dementia with Lewy bodies

Researchers at the Dementia Research Centre (ϲ) are working alongside the START team to adapt START for carers of people with Parkinson's Disease Dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). START materials have been adapted and are freely available below. Researchers have delivered the modified version of START to ten carers in a pilot for PDD and DLB, with funding from the .

To deliver the START intervention, you will need:

The“Facilitator” versionof the START manual, for healthcare professionals and support workers to use to deliver each of the eight sessions

The“Carer” versionof the START manual, which is to be printed out and given to the carer to keep and annotate.

The“CHOICE” leafletreferred to in Session 6. Please note that contact information contained in this leaflet was updated in October 2018, and may no longer be up to date.

The“Action Plan”table referred to in Session 8.

Finally, each session contains a relaxation exercise. We are working to provide the audio files for therelaxation CD'shere as soon as possible. Until we are able to do so pleasecontactthe research team directly who will either email or post you the CD.

Facilitator version

Carer version

CHOICE leaflet

Action Plan Table