Dementia awareness campaign
The national campaign for dementia awareness launches on 1 March 2010. Run in partnership with The Alzheimer’s Society, the campaign will address poor public understanding of dementia. Read more »
The national campaign for dementia awareness launches on 1 March 2010. Run in partnership with The Alzheimer’s Society, the campaign will address poor public understanding of dementia. Read more »
From April 2010, all providers of acute, mental health, learning disability and ambulance services will be required to produce a Quality Account. Read more »
Each South West community was asked to submit a local action plan following an appraisal of their progress in the summer of 2009. This report is designed to provide a helpful benchmark for local communities to assess the strength of their existing action plans. Read more »
The Personal Care at Home Bill was debated in the House of Lords recently. The next stage of the Bill will be in the House of Lords during March 2010. Read more »
‘This is me’ is a leaflet produced by the Alzheimer’s Society to help hospital staff better understand the needs of people with dementia. Read more »
Monday 12 April 2010, 9.30am-4.30pm Taunton Racecourse, Taunton, TA3 7BL. Book now to avoid disappointment. Read more »
Devon’s strategic objective in relation to dementia is to narrow the gap between the recorded and the currently estimated prevalence of dementia by at least 25% in the next 5 years. Read more »
A recent report from the Audit Commission shows that older people who have the opportunity to be looked after in their own home if they want to are happier and there are less costs to the taxpayer. Read more »
The National Life Story Network was launched at a conference in Leeds on 12th February. The network provides a national forum to support the use of Life Story work among people with dementia, and others. Read more »
The guidance on intermediate care issued to NHS and local authorities has been updated, to improve the access of people with dementia to intermediate care services. Read more »
The purpose of this guide is to provide basic information and point ambulance clinicians in the direction of where to find out more. Read more »
Download presentations from the regional conference on improving dementia care in general hospitals, jointly organised by the South West Dementia Strategy Group and the British Geriatrics Society, held at Exeter Racecource on Tuesday 26 January 2010. Read more »
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics report Dementia: ethical issues presents an ethical framework to help those who face dilemmas in connection with the everyday care of someone with dementia. Read more »
Presentations from the ‘Bridging the Gap’ telecare symposium held on 20th January 2010, London. Read more »
The December 2009 / January 2010 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website. Read more »
Watch podcasts on the Department of Health’s Dementia Information Portal to find out about key events and people involved in the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy. Read more »
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 »
This first bulletin provides a summary on the key findings of the partnership’s recent review of dementia services across the South West. 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 Lion’s Face is an opera about dementia which will use the medium of opera and poetry to describe the experiences of the patient, the carer and the research scientist. Read more »
This literature review examined possible evidence of age discrimination in the provision of mental health care services for older people in the United Kingdom. Read more »
This moving documentary is an honest portrayal of the strain dementia can put on a relationship, but also the enduring nature of love and the powerful role music can play in that. 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 overview report provides information about the review process and how the fourteen health and social care communities are taking forward implementation of the National Dementia Strategy across the South West region. Read more »
The NHS Operating Framework for 2010/11 includes dementia in the priorities section, under areas to support local prioritisation (para 2.51 p 22). Read more »
Dementia care is the theme of the December 2009 issue of the National End of Life Care Programme newsletter. Read more »
Download the presentations and documents from the Gloucestershire Primary Care Dementia Summit. 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 »
Guidance on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and support of people with learning disabilities who develop dementia. Co-published by The British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 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 »
This report describes and analyses the rationale for, and implementation and outcomes of, practice based commissioning in the NHS between 2007-2009. Read more »
This clinical knowledge summary covers the principles of palliative care, and reviews the management of some common problems in palliative care. 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 »
This pocket guide explains how the National Dementia Strategy (NDS) affects providers and managers of care home services. Read more »
Alzheimer’s Society report provides evidence from over 2,400 people with dementia, carers and nurses on the quality of dementia care provided on general wards in hospitals. Read more »
This report enables leaders and managers to recognise the factors that are fundamental to trust, and provides them with the tools to shape their behaviour to improve trust in themselves and their organisations as a whole. Read more »
The Government has outlines how it plans to take action on antipsychotic drugs and dementia in response to an independent review by Professor Sube Banerjee. Read more »
A new report on ‘Dementia: ethical issues’ has been published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics for service providers, people with dementia and carers. Read more »
The report details the views of researchers, service providers and people living with dementia who attended the Ministerial Summit on Dementia Research. Read more »
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 »
The South West Dementia Strategy Group recently organised a conference to present the findings of the South West Dementia Review and to discuss the way forward. Read more »
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 »
Care home “dementia champion” Cheri Needham talks to Community Care magazine about her passion for a new approach to caring for people with dementia. Read more »
After 10 years of celebrating and sharing, the Beacon Scheme is ending. It is being replaced by the new and exciting Local Innovation Awards Scheme. Read more »
The report explores the current evidence base, the law, and practice relating to prescription of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia. Read more »
The World Alzheimer Report 2009 presents the most comprehensive global prevalence study of dementia to date and looks at levels of mortality, disability, strain on carers and dependency. Read more »