Occupational Therapy in a Memory Clinic

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Abstract
Memory loss needs to be recognised as usually being the symptom of a disease, such as dementia, and not accepted merely as part of the normal ageing process. Memory clinics, developed to promote this concept, provide both an assessment resource for the increasing numbers of elderly people with memory problems and a focus for research into dementia. Although occupational therapists have not previously been included in such clinics' multidisciplinary assessment teams, experience at the Bath Memory Clinic identified this as a requirement. This article describes the main tasks of the occupational therapist and suggests that this is an essential role within a memory clinic setting.

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