Dementia Partnerships
The Alzheimer’s Society recent report, Home truths, highlighted the lack of focus on housing and dementia and recognised the importance of trained housing staff, who understand dementia and can support families by providing information and advice on local services and housing options. Read more »
The July 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, features: Memory Aware Mid Devon event; Hogeway Dementia Village; Brain in Hand; New involvement projects and the EVA radioshow. Read more »
Presentations on projects underway to reduce the inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics in care homes. Read more »
The Law Commission recently recommended expanding direct payments to residential care, and the Department of Health has chosen to explore this by supporting the development of ‘test sites’ in partnership with local authorities. Read more »
An Alzheimer’s Society training programme is being rolled out to 150 care homes across the UK to increase understanding and awareness of dementia and provide tools, ideas and resources to enable staff to provide good quality person-centred care. Read more »
Skills for Care and Dementia UK have jointly published of a new guide designed exclusively for the social care workforce which aims to spread best practice in supporting family carers of people with dementia. Read more »
Engagement with local black and minority ethnic groups in Gloucestershire has led to better understanding of the needs of people with memory problems, and living with dementia. Read more »
The May 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, features Developing dementia friendly communities and the Dementia friendly communities toolkit. Read more »
Friends of the McNamara Centre are in the process of searching for a plot of land in the Plymouth area that can be transformed into a sensory garden and allotment dedicated to ‘Planting Memories’ for generations to come. Read more »
Sir Ian Carruthers, OBE, Chief Executive of NHS South of England, recently wrote to Clinical Commissioning Group Chairs, Directors of Social Services and Primary Care Trust Cluster Chief Execeutives, outlining an ambitious programme of work for the South of England in response to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. Read more »