This guide focuses on how councils can make personal budgets work well for older people and their families. It looks at how to ensure they are accessible, simple to use, flexible and help to achieve the things that matter most to the people using them. Read more »
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 »
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 »
Videos and commentary following the BBC documentary in which Sir Gerry Robinson explores the care of people with dementia in care homes. Read more »
The Dementia Gateway contains practical tips, tools and activities on key areas as well as free e-learning programmes, developed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Society. Read more »
NHS Gloucestershire hosted a Primary Care Dementia Summit on 24th November 2009 to support the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy and the findings South West review of dementia services. Read more »
This report describes a simple six-stage process that uses person centred information (for example from person centred reviews, person centred plans or support plans) to drive strategic change and commissioning. Read more »
This service specification and case study describes a floating support for people with dementia, provided by the charity Rethink and jointly commissioned by four authorities in the South and South West of England. Read more »
The purpose of this paper is to assist commissioners in ensuring that homecare for people with dementia is appropriate to their needs and/or the needs of their carers. It is informed by the views of people with dementia and of people who have been, or currently are, carers; and of people who are professionally involved… Read more »
This report provides evidence on the quality of dementia care provided on general wards in hospitals across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Using evidence received from carers and nurses on the quality of care provided the key areas of need that are not being met are discussed. These include: understanding dementia the provision of person-centred… Read more »