Dementia Partnerships
Talking mats
Talking Mats is an established communication tool, which uses a mat with symbols attached as the basis for communication. Read more »
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In their own words
These four films follow the experiences of people with different stages of Alzheimer’s. The first three films follow the experiences of Bill Wilson, Daryl Munday and Stan Lintern. In part four Kanta and Prabhakant Patel talk about their mother, Chanchalben Patel who sadly died in 2004. Read more »
Reforming leadership development … again
This paper asserts that debates about improving management and leadership in the NHS are not new and continuous reform suggests that previous attempts may not have tackled the right problem. Read more »
Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy
This landmark document sets out initiatives to transform services and make the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families better and more fulfilled. Read more »
Inspiring leaders: leadership for quality
This guidance provides a best practice framework for the development of leaders across healthcare. Read more »
The design of housing for people with dementia
This paper illustrates how the principles of designing for dementia have been successfully applied to extra care housing. Read more »
A better return: setting the foundations for intelligent commissioning to achieve value for money
This report describes how the Third Sector could evidence its wider impact on public services and their delivery. Read more »
Access of BME staff to senior positions in the NHS
This report explores the organisational barriers to black and minority ethnic (BME) staff rising to positions of authority and influence in the NHS in order to inform future developments. Read more »
Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision
This guidance is intended to help providers of community services to move their relationship with their commissioners to a purely contractual one, consider what type(s) of organisations would best meet the future needs of patients and local communities, and how change can be managed to support the transformation of services to patients. Read more »
Systematic reviews of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions that promote mental well-being in later life
This review of 21 databases and 11 websites sought evidence, published between January 1993 and February 2007, of the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote mental well-being in later life. Read more »
Teams without walls: the value of medical innovation and leadership
Teams without walls bring together healthcare professionals from primary and secondary care to work across traditional health boundaries to deliver care that puts the patient first. The working party, made up of representatives from the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, suggest… Read more »
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home
This report looks at the experiences of people with dementia living in care homes in England, with a particular focus on whether their care offers dignity and respect. Read more »
Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care – A Guide to Good Practice
The book explores how reminiscence can contribute to person-centred dementia care and contains detailed descriptions of activities that can be used in a variety of settings. Read more »
Always a last resort: Inquiry into the prescription of
antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia living in care
homes
This report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) examines the problem of the over prescription of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia living in care homes and proposes workables solutions. Read more »
Strengthening the involvement of people with dementia
toolkit
This toolkit augments the section ‘Involving service users and their carers’ in ‘Everybody’s Business – a service development guide’. Read more »
Developing forums for people with dementia
This report provides an evaluation of the Alzheimer’s Society project developing forums for people with dementia by the Dementia Services Development Centre for Wales. Read more »
The challenges of leadership in the NHS
This briefing paper is the result of a series of interviews with a cross-section of senior managers about what they think about the state of NHS leadership and management. Read more »
Improving services and support for people with dementia
This report published by the National Audit Office presents findings from a study into the health and social care services available for people with dementia and their unpaid carers in England and whether they are providing effective and good quality support; and the scope for better use of resources against a background of rising demand. Read more »
How to achieve effective clinical engagement and leadership when working across organisational boundaries
This briefing paper identifies the characteristics and impact of high quality clinical engagement, leadership and team effectiveness across organisational boundaries. Read more »
Dementia UK (2007)
This report into the prevalence and cost of dementia shows that as the UK’s population ages the number of people with dementia will grow substantially. It also shows that dementia costs the UK £17 billion a year. Read more »
Listen to Us: Involving people with dementia in planning and developing services
This guide was produced by Dementia North as part of a Department of Health funded development project to explore how people with dementia can be involved in service planning and development. Read more »