Dementia Partnerships
Supporting people with dementia at home
This training resource published by the Alzheimer’s Society aims to help homecare workers provide excellent person centred support for people with dementia who are living at home. Read more »
Find me good care
Social Care Institute for Excellence has launched a new service called ‘Find Me Good Care’, to help people find good care in response to research that reveals many people are mystified by the care system. Read more »
This scheme, led by Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, offers examples of partnership working between primary care, secondary care, social care and third sector organisations, to assist people with dementia and their carers/family in living healthily and well in the community. Read more »
New models of care for dementia
This report proposes a new understanding of the dementia journey and a revised model of care for dementia, aimed at improving experiences and outcomes, and informing service redesign and commissioning. Read more »
This document explains the evidence that has been used in designing the service to support people with dementia, whether living at home or in care homes, as well as dementia-specific elements of other Communities. Read more »
Service specification for dementia: better care at home,
and in care homes
This specification has been designed to support primary care in the assessment and management of people with problematic symptoms of dementia or other complex presentations living at home, in a care home or other residential setting. Read more »
This best practice guide has been developed in consultation with an advisory group of leading clinicians specialising in dementia. Read more »
This document sets out a number of ‘contract inserts’ which describe the specific requirements of people with dementia and their carers when using mainstream services. These may be used by commissioners when drawing up their own statements of requirements for discussions for service redesign or in a procurement situation. They may be included in a… Read more »
This report, published by Healthcare at Home, explores home-based models of care that will keep people with dementia out of hospital. Read more »
This report provides evidence from over 2,000 carers, people with dementia and home care workers on the aspirations, experiences and outcomes of providing dementia care in the community in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more »