Dementia Partnerships
Person-centred approaches
This Community Care magazine feature on using person-centred approaches to supporting people to live well with dementia profiles the recent work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence in this field. Read more »
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End of life care for people with dementia
This project aimed to identify the major barriers for dementia patients and their carers in accessing good quality end of life care. The research findings suggest cost effective ways of enabling improvements. Read more »
The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: Time for action
The report explores the current evidence base, the law, and practice relating to prescription of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia. Read more »
Effective leadership development interventions: a position statement
This Health Foundation report reveals the interventions that work in creating leadership knowledge, behaviours, skills, competences, or ‘habits of mind’, relating to quality improvement. Read more »
Contracting for personalised outcomes: learning from emerging practice
Contracting for personalised outcomes draws on learning from six local authorities who have begun to reshape their contracts, processes, range of budget holding options and relationships with the provider market to ensure that personalised services are available for everyone with care and support needs. Read more »
Living Well With Dementia: A National Dementia Strategy Implementation Plan
The National Dementia Strategy Implementation Plan describes the implementation task, arrangements for national and regional support, and the programmes that have been put in place to support delivery of Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy. Read more »
Good practice in relation to working with older people experiencing dementia
This study was commissioned in order to identify and promote good practice in relation to working with older people experiencing dementia. Read more »
NHS Mutual: engaging staff and aligning incentives to
achieve higher levels of performance
This report looks at the factors that drive staff engagement in the health service, and examines various models of employee ownership in use both within and outside the NHS. Read more »
Older people living in the community – nutritional needs, barriers and interventions: a literature review
This literature review focuses on the nutritional needs of older adults living in the community, the barriers to them meeting their nutritional needs and interventions which may be successful in improving nutritional intake. Read more »
Prepared to care – Challenging the dementia skills
gap
This report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) explores the scale of the challenge in training the caring professions in dementia, and how it may be met. Read more »