Dementia Partnerships
Support and care for people living with dementia from
minority communities
This report outlines recommendations to improve support and care for people with dementia from minority communities in the North East. Read more »
This project aims to involve people living with dementia in designing and shaping dementia services in Crawley. Read more »
This project aims to commission Admiral Nurses to provide specialist and personalised support to people with dementia and their families and carers in Sussex. Read more »
This project aims to commission Antipsychotic Prescribing Support Pharmacists to review and, where appropriate, reduce the prescribing of anti-psychotics medication in a supported manner for people living with dementia in Sussex. Read more »
This project aims to deliver a Dementia Crisis Respite Service in North West Surrey to prevent breakdown of a caring situation or care package that would probably have led to hospital admission or admission to a care home. Read more »
Dementia Friends
Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative that aims to give a million people a better understanding of dementia by 2015. Watch this video to find out more. Read more »
This project will deliver improved support for people with dementia and their carers living in the community by extending the capacity of the Community Care Teams in South East Hampshire. Read more »
This project aims to create a Dementia-Friendly Island building on and enhancing the existing Isle of Wight Dementia Action Alliance. Read more »
This project aims to ensure patients with dementia living in care homes in Buckinghamshire only have medication prescribed for them that meets their specific needs and enables them to enjoy life and live with dignity. Read more »
This project aims to adopt the Gnosall primary care based memory assessment approach to improve dementia diagnosis in harder to reach communities in Buckinghamshire. Read more »
Patient-led assessments of the care environment
This letter published by the NHS England introduces Patient-led assessments of the care environment (PLACE), the new system for assessing the quality of the hospital environment from April 2013. Read more »
This project aims to accelerate the pace of improvement in the pathway of care for people with dementia and their carers living in Oxfordshire by providing a programme of dementia training and education for health and social care staff. Read more »
This project aims to improve the early diagnosis of dementia by increasing the number of initial screening assessments and raising awareness about the benefits of assessment and early diagnosis as part of an overarching Aging Well campaign across East Berkshire. Read more »
This project aims to ensure that staff working in University Hospital Southampton are dementia aware and have the appropriate skills to meet the needs of people with dementia. Read more »
This project aims to develop a more user-friendly care pathway for people living with dementia in Oxfordshire by providing easier access to assessment for early diagnosis and support within primary care settings. Read more »
This project will deliver Dementia Awareness training to support people in East Berkshire to better understand the different types of dementia, some of the associated behaviours and reasons behind them. Read more »
This project will deliver the Department of Health approved ‘Understanding Dementia’ training course to educate carers in North Hampshire about dementia from first diagnosis through the dementia journey. Read more »
This project will deliver a single point of service information for people with dementia and their carers in East Berkshire Read more »
This project aims to deliver a dementia friendly hospital environment at the King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor through the provision of a suite of Reminiscence Pods which support flexible reminiscence therapy. Read more »
This project aims to reduce the prescription of antipsychotic medication for people living with dementia in care homes across Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead. Read more »
Not just a number: Review of home care services
This report published by the Care Quality Commission
highlights the findings of inspections of 250 domiciliary care
agencies providing at-home support and care.
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The Alzheimer’s Society has announced information sessions across England over the next 3 months which you can attend to find out more about and sign up to become a Dementia Friend. Read more »
The Government has announced new measures for funding care to ensure that the elderly and those with disabilities get the care they need without facing unlimited costs. Read more »
This project aims to affect behaviour change amongst health and social care staff in Hampshire so they are better equipped to support people with dementia and their carers to achieve their care preferences to the very end of their lives. Read more »
This project will provide support to carers of people with dementia in 21 General Practices across North Hampshire. Read more »
This project aims to achieve excellence in end of life care for people with dementia living in North Hampshire nursing homes. This will be achieved through Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (SPC CNS) mentoring of care home staff. Read more »
This project will create dementia friendly communities in North Hampshire, specifically responding to the demographic changes and the increasing levels of need emanating from diverse communities. Read more »
The project aims to establish sustainable dementia friendly communities across the county of Hampshire, reaching as full a range of different communities as possible. Read more »
The third Healthcare Innovation Expo takes place at the ExCeL, London March 13-14th 2013 and for the first time, it will showcase a dementia friendly community. Read more »
The project aims to give people with dementia and their carers living in West Berkshire access to the information they want and need via a variety of media, including a local Dementia information website, to inform, empower and improve lives. Read more »
This project aims to esatblish a care home in-reach team to improve the quality of care delivered to people with dementia living in residential care homes and nursing homes across West Berkshire. Read more »
This project aims to create a more inclusive community across West Berkshire so that people with dementia feel they can continue to enjoy life, live as independently as possible and be part of the community. Read more »
This project will establish a community based Dementia Team that will identify, lead and maintain quality improvements in dementia care across acute and community settings in East and West Berkshire. Read more »
This project aims to deliver Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) training to staff working in Day Centres and Extra Care Housing Schemes across West Berkshire, enabling more people with dementia to engage in this evidence based approach for longer. Read more »
The project is using an evidence based methodology to improve the knowledge, attitude and competencies of front line health staff in the care of people with dementia across Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. Read more »
The Department of Health has launched a 12 week consultation to establish a full set of NICE quality standards and guidance for social care. Read more »
This narrative is based on the statements that patients and service users could make if the care they experienced was person centred and coordinated. Read more »
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced funding to help local communities to build meaningful partnerships between Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) charities, community groups and social enterprises. Read more »
The Alzheimer’s Society has launched a volunteer project, ‘Connecting Communities’, which aims to raise awareness of dementia within black and minority ethnic (BME) communities across eight London boroughs. Read more »
This guide published by the Alzheimer’s Society is designed to be taken into care homes by people with dementia and their families and provides an independent and objective guide to what makes good quality care. Read more »
The Way Forward: Clinical Senates
This document published by the NHS Commissioning Board outlines the role that Clinical Senates will play in providing strategic clinical advice and leadership across a broad geographical area to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), health and wellbeing boards (HWB) and the NHS Commissioning Board from April 2013. Read more »
The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has recently published a document which supports the planning for Direct Commissioning responsibilities for 2013/14. Read more »
Spirituality and ageing: implications for the care and
support of older people
This briefing paper published the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services explores why our ageing population requires person-centred care and developmental support in order to maximise its chances of ageing well. Read more »
The Department of Health has announced that it is to hold a review looking at how the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients (LCP) is being used in practice. Read more »
Dementia diagnosis resource pack
This resource pack sets out key steps for Commissioners, and key steps for General Practices to improving diagnosis, and diagnosis pathways. Read more »
This template will support Clinical Commissioning Groups and general practices to plan work to improve dementia diagnosis rates and care pathways. Read more »
Alzheimer’s Society has produced an interactive map which highlights the number of people who have a diagnosis of dementia across the UK. The latest data shows wide variation between local areas. Read more »
Supporting people with dementia at home
This training resource published by the Alzheimer’s Society aims to help homecare workers provide excellent person centred support for people with dementia who are living at home. Read more »
NICE has launched a consultation on 14 proposed new indicators for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2014/15 including four in the dementia clinical domain. Read more »
Our Health website launched across the South of England
In line with the commitments set out in the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, the Our Health website has been rolled out across the South of England. Read more »