Memory Clinic

Our team has designated medical, nursing, neuropsychologist, medical social worker and memory clinic administrators. This team of professionals works extensively with the wider team to deliver integrated patient-centred care. Our specialist team works closely with each other and collaborates to ensure the best possible care is delivered to our patients.

Services

• Assessment Clinic: Providing an assessment and diagnostic service to patients with cognitive or behavioural symptoms
• Feedback Clinic: Providing patients and families with feedback on diagnosis and assessment findings
• Social Work Support Service: Designed to advise and support patients with cognitive impairment and their family and carers.
• Specialist Neuropsychology Service
• Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service
• Specialist Occupational Therapy Service
• Specialist Physiotherapy Service

If you have been seen previously in another Memory Clinic service or privately, please let us know before your appointment.

Please note that it may take up to 3 months before another appointment date becomes available if you decide to cancel.

Your initial appointment can take up to two hours, so please ensure you have set aside enough time to complete the assessment.

It is very important, if at all possible, that you bring a relative, friend or carer who knows you well and can assist with the assessment process. 

Please also bring the following with you to your appointment:

• Any reading glasses or hearing aids that you need
  
  
• A complete list of the medications that you are currently taking
  
  
• Any relevant information on tests and procedures completed in other hospitals, including copies of any brain scans (MRI, CT, and/or PET scan) that you may have
  
  
• If you are diabetic, please bring your glucometer as your blood sugars may be monitored during specific tests
  
  
• If you are asthmatic, please bring your inhalers to the clinic.
  
  
• If you have been seen by another service for memory/cognitive problems, please let us know where, and bring any reports you have from that service with you.

A referral form needs to be filled out by your GP and sent to the Memory Clinic via Healthlink

• Referral guidelines
• Referral form

If English is not your first language and you require an interpreter, please arrange for the clinic to be contacted before your appointment, to let us know.

The Memory Clinic assists patients with memory and other cognitive/behavioural problems that may have a neurodegenerative basis and are at an early stage of a disease process.

The Memory Clinic provides an assessment and disclosure service; it does not provide ongoing care and treatment, which is typically provided by local services in their community. Once a diagnosis is made, the patient and family are discharged back to their referral source. If the patient is from the SJH catchment area, and they have received a diagnosis of dementia, they may avail of the CNS-led Dementia Post-Diagnostic Clinic.