Dementia Partnerships
Dementia Ward has a smashing time
Garner Ward, part of Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, will be redesigned as part of The King’s Fund, Enhancing the Healing Environment. Read more »
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Sustainable social care: the natural environment
This briefing summarises research which considers the role of the natural environment in promoting health, wellbeing and social care. The findings highlighted include: the importance of access to local green space in promoting both physical and mental health, and in improving social integration hat the natural envornment can help to reduce aggressive behaviour with different… Read more »
International Dementia Excellence Awards
The International Dementia Excellence Awards are designed to recognise organisations and individuals who have worked to improve the quality of life of people with dementia. Read more »
Focus on dementia at Musgrove Park Hospital
Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has been selected to take part in a project to improve the hospital experience for patients with dementia. Read more »
Singing for the brain: Dementia Summit looks to the future
Launching a major event by getting everyone on their feet for a rousing song or two may sound more football than NHS, but that was precisely how the highly-successful South West Dementia Partnership Summit 2010 began at Taunton Racecourse in April. Read more »
Housing for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation report
The Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) has gathered good practice from across Europe and put together new and creative proposals to help ensure that future housing will create sustainable and inclusive homes and neighbourhoods which our ageing population want and can afford to live in. Read more »
Dementia Care: sustaining the person within
The Open University has produced a free leaflet, Dementia Care: Sustaining The Person Within, to accompany the BBC programmes Can Gerry Robinson fix dementia care homes. Read more »
Can Gerry Robinson fix dementia care homes
Videos and commentary following the BBC documentary in which Sir Gerry Robinson explores the care of people with dementia in care homes. Read more »
Two local units pilot a new Enabling Environment Award
Two Units from Bodmin Hospital have been chosen by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to pilot the new Enabling Environment Award. Read more »
Housing and dementia
Information on all aspects of meeting the needs of people with dementia and their carers in housing settings. Read more »