The DiADeM Application is a DEMENTIA Diagnosis diagnostic tool aimed for use in care home settings.

Developed in 2015 by the Yorkshire & Humber Dementia Clinical Network with input from a range of stakeholders including experts in the field of Dementia from across the health spectrum and in particular from Dr Graeme Finlayson & Dr Subha Thiyagesh who shared their existing protocols on which this application is based.

The application has support from Alzheimer’s Society and its use for diagnosing Dementia in the care home setting has been recommended by Prof Alistair Burns the National Clinical Director for Dementia.

We have recently completed an audit of the use of the paper based tool which was positive and we can see from the audit that many positive diagnosis of Dementia have been made. The audit showed good use of the application but there is room for further promotion, awareness and training.

For some time now it was felt that an electronic version of the application would be really useful and the Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Network teamed up with Code4Health to develop the paper form into an 'App' that can be used on a variety of hand held and portable devices. A small steering group which includes the clinical networks GP Dementia Adviser, representatives from Code4Health, Application Insight - the App developer and Network staff, has been working towards getting a Public Beta version ready including testing prior to launching the App and making it available to all.