Dementia Partnerships
Housing and Dementia – three new resources
The Housing Learning and Improvement Network, part of the Department of Health’s Care Networks, has produced three resources on the topic of housing and dementia. Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2009
Older people living in the community – nutritional needs, barriers and interventions: a literature review
This literature review focuses on the nutritional needs of older adults living in the community, the barriers to them meeting their nutritional needs and interventions which may be successful in improving nutritional intake. Read more »
Joint commissioning framework for dementia
This framework provides best practice guidance for commissioners in the NHS and local authorities to support implementation of the National Dementia Strategy, ‘Living well with dementia’. Read more »
Prepared to care – Challenging the dementia skills
gap
This report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) explores the scale of the challenge in training the caring professions in dementia, and how it may be met. Read more »
Extra care housing and people with dementia: A scoping review of the literature 1998-2008
This literature review identifies recent published and grey literature relating to people with dementia living in extra care housing. Read more »
Beyond practice-based commissioning: the local clinical partnership
This report outlines how groups of clinicians based in hospitals and in the community could come together to form new organisations that take on responsibility for the health outcomes of their local communities. Read more »
Housing and dementia
Information on all aspects of meeting the needs of people with dementia and their carers in housing settings. Read more »
New Horizons – a new vision for mental health and wellbeing
A new strategy that will promote good mental health and well-being, whilst improving services for people who have mental health problems. Read more »
National dementia strategy demonstrator site programme
The National Dementia Strategy requires an improved evidence base about the effectiveness of two service models proposed. Read more »
Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy
The aim of the Strategy is to ensure that significant improvements are made to dementia services across three key areas: improved awareness, earlier diagnosis and intervention, and a higher quality of care. Read more »