Dementia Partnerships
Jeremy Hughes on innovating for an ageing society
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive at the Alzheimer’s Society, looks at how telecare innovations can make a positive difference for frail older people and the challenges facing the successful adoption of health technologies. Read more »
A team at the National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP) has developed an advance care planning toolkit to help care providers approach the planning process with confidence and knowledge. Read more »
A recently published report by the Nuffield Trust explores social care’s significant contribution to end of life care and how closely it links with healthcare. Read more »
This recently published toolkit identifies the main elements involved in the commissioning process, explains the commissioning cycle in practical terms and offers a four-stage approach across all sectors. Read more »
Informed About Dementia DVD
This series of 6 videos. developed by NHS Education for Scotland, aims to support staff and students improve their dementia awareness, knowledge and skills. Read more »
The Department of Health has published the fourth annual report on progress in delivering the End of Life Care Strategy. Read more »
Involve Me is a new web based tool which helps organisations to record, reflect and report on the way that they involve people with personal experience. Read more »
The Right Care: creating dementia friendly hospitals
The Right Care is a call to action to transform the acute hospital experience for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
The King’s Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme involves 23 teams from acute and mental health NHS trusts seeking to make acute general hospital environments less alienating for people with cognitive problems. Read more »
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly uses the STAR tool to support medications review and ensure appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications. Read more »