Dementia Partnerships
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 »
Creating a dementia-friendly city
Findings from the York Dementia Without Walls project which explored how to make York a good place to live for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
The September 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, features: Memory aware mid Devon; Dementia-friendly services and GeniUS York. Read more »
A recent report published by Carers UK, ‘Carers and telecare’, examines the evidence and opportunities provided by telecare and telehealth and the barriers to greater take-up. Read more »
Dementia-friendly virtual care home
The Dementia Services Development Centre’s virtual care home has been shortlisted in the ‘Improving care with technology’ category in the Health Service Journal Awards. Read more »
A recent report published by the Good Governance Institute, ‘Care and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England’, provides recommendations about how telecare services and user outcomes can be improved. Read more »
Jeremy Hughes talks about dementia friendly communities
Jeremy Hughes, Chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, talks about the challenges in making our communities more ‘dementia friendly’. Read more »
The ‘Ready Steady Go telehealth implementation toolkit’ provides a framework for organisations to develop a supportive environment in which telehealth can flourish. Read more »
The August 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, features: Dementia Without Walls; User testing of technology for people with dementia; Your opportunity to influence the NICE draft quality standard on dementia. Read more »
Details of a recently published self-assessment tool for managers to use with their staff to check how they are doing in delivering personalised support for people with dementia. Read more »