Dementia Partnerships
Volunteering and dementia in Bristol
In partnership with the Voluntary Sector and Local Authority this project will support people with dementia and their carers/family post diagnosis in Bristol, through volunteering. Read more »
Bristol as a Dementia Friendly City
This project aims to move Bristol towards becoming a ‘dementia-friendly city’ in which people with dementia can enjoy the same opportunities to take part in a social life, live independently and engage in everyday activity as other people, without fear of stigma or rejection. Read more »
Building on the Gloucestershire ‘Living Well Handbook’, this project aims to develop a user-designed and owned handbook that will serve as a companion to the dementia journey for people in West Berkshire . Read more »
This project aims to improve care and support to people living with dementia and their carers in Gloucestershire in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and premature residential care admission as well as to reduce length of stay after a hospital admission. Read more »
This South Gloucestershire based project aims to share good practice and ensure that all patients and carers get equal access to post diagnosis support and information via a range of media: face to face, handbooks, leaflets, telephone and the web. Read more »
This project aims to provide a new pathway of care for people with dementia admitted to the Royal United Hospital Bath, which puts carers and patients in the ‘driving seat’, improving discharge and reducing unnecessary admissions in future. Read more »
This project aims to make Somerset dementia friendly place in which people with dementia are valued, befriended and encouraged to live independently and engage in everyday activity. Read more »
This project will support people with dementia and their carers/family by providing new courses that people can use once they have had a diagnosis of dementia. All these courses will be in the community near to where people live in Bristol. Read more »
This Bristol-based project will put people with dementia at the heart of hospital design to improve their experience of care, highlighting the important role the environment can play in supporting innovation in service delivery and care quality. Read more »
This project will support people in rural areas of Bath and North East Somerset to achieve early diagnosis of dementia and get the support they want in the way that they want it, enabling people to live at home in the way that they choose. Read more »