Details on the June issue of the care homes newsletter from the National Dementia Strategy Implementation Team. This issue focuses on raising awareness of dementia within care homes and how care homes are raising awareness in local communities. Read more »
The theme of Dementia Awareness Week this year, is Remember the person. Throughout the week, the Alzheimer’s Society is encouraging people to look beyond dementia and understand that everyone living with dementia is still an individual. Read more »
Late-onset dementia: early diagnosis and drug treatmentThis video from SocialCareTV, managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, illustrates the positive effects of an early diagnosis of dementia and the crucial support role carers can play. Read more »
This issue provides features on Partnership events, such as the Dementia Summit 2010 and the regional conference on improving dementia care in general hospitals. There are updates on regional work to raise awareness, improve dementia care in care homes and develop an informed and effective workforce for people with dementia. Read more »
All of the Primary Care Trusts across the South West are making significant progress with the safety of local prescribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring arrangements in the provision of medication to older people in care homes. Read more »
The commissioning and benchmarking tool helps you to assess local service requirements using the indicative benchmark as a starting point. With knowledge of your local population and its demographic, you can amend the benchmark to better reflect your local circumstances. Read more »
The person centred support plan aims to enable and support the person living with dementia in a care home to be as self-reliant and in control as they can be. Read more »
The South West Dementia Partnership has agreed as a priority the development of improved memory assessment services to enable a year on year increase in the rates of diagnosis of dementia. Read more »
The purpose of this introductory guide is to give care staff some basic information and to point people in the direction of further advice. Read more »
This paper offers new skills and tools based on the principles of creativity and innovation. Read more »