Dementia Partnerships
Dementia Care in Hospital: Building on Strengths
Two hundred hospital staff and volunteers attended an engaging conference in Exeter to explore how to make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia while in hospital. Read more »
The National Dementia CQUIN aims to help identify patients with dementia and other causes of cognitive impairment, alongside their other medical conditions and to prompt appropriate referral and follow up after they leave hospital. Read more »
Fact sheet on the Care of people with dementia in primary care published by the Royal College of General Practitioners. Read more »
This Guidance sets out the process and associated standards for making a diagnosis of dementia in primary health care services, and by specialist memory assessment services. Read more »
Primary care making a difference to people living with
dementia
Two hundred GPs, health and social care staff, and volunteers working in the primary care community attended an engaging conference in Exeter to explore how primary care can make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia. Read more »
Delivering Dignity: Securing dignity in care for older
people in hospitals and care homes
The recently published report from the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People looks at the undignified care of older people in our hospitals and care homes and how this can be improved. Read more »
The Dementia Shared Lives Project, will seek to develop a bank of Shared Lives placements, where people open their own homes to provide care to people with dementia, these placements could be used for long term care, rehabilitation/recuperation, respite short breaks and social and day activity. Read more »
Julia Burton of the Alzheimer’s Society recalls the power of the Hallelujah Chorus, as performed at a special event by Singing for the Brain groups in Wiltshire and Dorset. The Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah was the subject of BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music, Tuesday 28 February 2012. Read more »
The February 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, includes features on: Dementia Adventure; Assisted living; Training. Read more »
This interactive day enabled participants to explore how to build resilience by learning from when times are hard, and how to build sustainability by building from the best of what we have. Read more »