Dementia Partnerships
Pocket guides to National Dementia Strategy for care homes
This pocket guide produced by the Royal College of Nursing explains how the National Dementia Strategy (NDS) affects providers and managers of care home services. Read more »
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Extra care housing and dementia commissioning checklist
This checklist is designed to help stakeholders commission Extra Care housing schemes which meet the needs and aspirations of people with dementia and their families. Read more »
Late-onset dementia: early diagnosis and drug treatment
This video from SocialCareTV, managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, illustrates the positive effects of an early diagnosis of dementia and the crucial support role carers can play. Read more »
End of life care for people with dementia commissioning and benchmarking tool
The commissioning and benchmarking tool helps you to assess local service requirements using the indicative benchmark as a starting point. With knowledge of your local population and its demographic, you can amend the benchmark to better reflect your local circumstances. Read more »
End of life care for people with dementia commissioning guide
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help statutory and voluntary health and social care professionals in England to commission integrated end of life care (EOLC) services for people with dementia. Read more »
The impact of dementia in learning disability care homes in the South West
This report presents the findings of a survey exploring whether learning disability care homes in the South West are faced with increasing numbers of people with dementia. Read more »
South West standards for dementia care in hospital
These standards have been developed in response to the many concerns expressed about poor quality care experienced by people with a dementia when they are in hospital. Read more »
Altogether NOW Collectively figuring out how to develop alternatives to just paid support
This paper, based on work by organisations in the North West, looks at how providers and commissioners can work together to develop individually designed services at a time of reducing resources. Read more »
Prescribing guidelines: Acetyl Cholinesterase inhibitors
These prescribing guidelines developed by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust support GPs on the use of Acetyl Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s dementia in accordance with NICE guidance. Read more »
Improving care in care homes in the South West
This discussion paper aims to draw together evidence about care homes in the South West and highlights how managers, staff and commissioners can contribute to improving the quality of care for people with dementia. Read more »