Dementia Partnerships
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Grouple is a secure, private online social network helping people share the responsibilities of caring for someone with dementia. Read more »
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Getting to know the person with dementia – the
importance of memories
To mark World Alzheimer’s Month in September and World Alzheimer’s Day on Saturday 21 September, SCIE has launched a film about the importance of getting to know the person with dementia, learning about their memories and experience, and understanding the person’s history and their likes and dislikes. Read more »
World Alzheimer Report 2013
The report ‘Journey of Caring: An analysis of long-term care for dementia’, recently published by Alzheimer’s Disease International, reveals that number of older people dependent on care will rise threefold to 277 million worldwide in the next thirty years and almost half of those people will be living with dementia. Read more »
Dementia Diagnosis Competence Map
Dementia Diagnosis Competence Map sets out the competences required to inform screen, assessment, and diagnosis of dementia, and thereby inform the commissioning of diagnosis pathways and services. Read more »
Yorkshire and the Humber launch event
Access the presentations from the event held on 17th September 2013 to launch the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions Yorkshire and the Humber. Read more »
Care homes invited to pilot dementia care audit
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has invited Care homes in England to take part in a pilot which will help them to audit their support for residents with dementia, and compare their services against other providers. Read more »
Improving timely diagnosis and post diagnostic support
This presentation about improving timely diagnosis and post diagnostic support by Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, NHS England, was delivered at the launch of the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions Yorkshire and the Humber on 17 September 2013. Read more »
Guidance on the use of neuro-imaging in the assessment of
dementia in Primary Care
This guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards covers the role of neuro-imaging in the diagnosis of dementia in primary care. Read more »
Guidance on initiating the Prescribing of Donepezil
in
Primary Care
This guidance has been commissioned by the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia, and Neurological Conditions (South West) as a resource for prescribers to support and inform prescribing of anti-dementia drugs, and to inform the design of dementia diagnosis and post-diagnosis pathways. Read more »
CCG Outcomes Tools
Information packs for CCGs and Local Authorities that set out key data to inform the local position on outcomes, including interactive versions. Read more »
Future hospital: caring for medical patients
This report published by the Future Hospital Commission sets out the Commission’s vision for hospital services structured around the needs of patients, now and future. Read more »
Guidance on commissioning for quality in dementia care
This guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards provides components of excellent provision in dementia care grouped around personal outcome statements. Read more »
Living with Early Onset
In this video, commissioned by the University of Edinburgh and facilitated by Strange Theatre, participants explore and express some of the difficulties faced by people affected by early onset dementia and their families. Read more »
Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service: Supporting carers and
building resilience
This case study, published by The King’s Fund, looks at how Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service provides care co-ordination, and specialist palliative care and support to patients with advanced dementia living at home. Read more »
What works best in dementia
Tell us about what you are doing locally to design and deliver services / initiatives / groups for people living with dementia. Read more »
Building dementia-friendly communities: A priority for
everyone
This report, published by the Alzheiner’s Society, explores evidence from people with dementia about their experiences of living in their community and the ten key things they would like to see in a dementia-friendly community. Read more »
Funding available for Dementia and End of Life
qualifications
Funding is available to Gloucestershire and West of England care providers that can be accessed through Care Learning for QCF qualifications which staff may have completed or are currently undergoing. Read more »
Pamela Holmes on dying well at home
In this brief video below Pamela Holmes, Social Care Institute
for Excellence (SCIE), talks about the dying well at home
guide which is about enabling people who want to die at home
to do so and improving the quality of care they receive.
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Dementia Adviser service: evaluation
This report published by the Alzheimer’s Society presents the findings of an evaluation of the Pathfinder Dementia Adviser services from the perspective of service users. Read more »
Care for vulnerable older people
On 5 July, Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, launched a period of engagement on government plans to improve care for vulnerable older people. These include focusing on providing a more integrated out-of-hospital service to address all of a person’s needs. They also propose a stronger role for general practice, building on its existing… Read more »
Dementia e-learning for healthcare
An interactive e-learning resource to support the training of all health and social care staff in recognising, assessing, and managing dementia, and providing high quality dementia care. Read more »
Clinical Commissioning Groups: Supporting improvement in
general practice?
This report based on fieldwork conducted by the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust provides an overview of evolution of Clinical Commissioning Groups and an assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead. Read more »
Caring for People with Dementia: You can make a
difference
This DVD about dementia is a learning resource for care staff (domicilary and care home), hospital staff and primary care staff. It is divided into several chapters which cover aspects of dementia care from diagnosis to end of life/dignified death. Read more »
Timely diagnosis of dementia: Integrating perspectives,
achieving consensus
This consensus statement confirms that appropriate post diagnostic support is essential and probably the most important component of all aspects of care for people with dementia. Read more »
Getting to Know Me: Supporting people with dementia in
general hospitals
The Greater Manchester Health Innovation and Education Cluster have developed training materials to support staff working on dementia awareness in general hospitals. Read more »
National Audit of Dementia – second report
The second report of the National Audit of Dementia (2013) indicates that there is some distance to travel to deliver quality care for patients with dementia who are hospitalised, and their carers/families. Read more »
Improving care for vulnerable older people
Comments are being sought on Government proposals to improve primary care and urgent and emergency care for vulnerable older people. Read more »
A Good Life in Old Age? Monitoring and Improving Quality in
Long-term Care
This report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services. Read more »
Care.data GP toolkit
This toolkit, produced by NHS England, aims to help GP Practices raise patient awareness of plans to extract coded GP data as part of the care.data programme, It also explains what to do if a patient objects to the use of personal confidential data beyond their direct care. Read more »
Dementia does not discriminate
The report, ‘Dementia does not Discriminate’, produced by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia, looks at the experiences of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in dealing with the condition. Read more »
Top 10 research priorities for dementia
Following extensive engagement and consultation the Alzheimer’s Society has unveiled a top 10 list of research priorities on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of dementia. Read more »
Draft national eligibility criteria for adult care and support
This document sets out the plan for a new national minimum threshold for eligibility criteria for adult care and support. Read more »
Debate safe and compassionate healthcare
Mary Agnew, Deputy Director of the Department of Health Francis Implementation Team, is blogging to open up debate and offer personal reflections on safe and compassionate healthcare. Read more »
Nursing and midwifery actions at the three levels of public
health practice
This document sets out the actions to be taken by individual nursing and midwifery groups in order to maximise wellbeing and improve health outcomes as part of action area one of the ‘Compassion in Practice’ nursing and midwifery vision and strategy. Read more »
Palliative and end of life care for Black, Asian and
Minority Ethnic groups in the UK
This report published by Marie Curie Cancer Care highlights that the end of life care needs of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities are varied, growing, and despite examples of good practice, overall not adequately met. Read more »
CANTABMobile
CANTABMobile is a commercial diagnostic tool available on the iPad for testing memory to help doctors decide if someone’s memory is normal for their age, or if there are real concerns. Read more »
Yorkshire and the Humber Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Yorkshire and the Humber. Read more »
Wessex Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Wessex. Read more »
Thames Valley Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Thames Valley. Read more »
South East Coast Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in the South East Coast. Read more »
Northern England Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Northern England. Read more »
London Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in London. Read more »
Greater Manchester and East Cheshire Clinical Networks
This clinical network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire. Read more »
East of England Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in the East of England. Read more »
North West Coast Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in Cheshire and Merseyside. Read more »
West Midlands Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in the West Midlands. Read more »
East Midlands Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in the East Midlands. Read more »
National Survey of Patient Activity Data for Specialist Palliative Care Services
This report published by the National Council for Palliative Care shows there has been an increase in the availability and use of inpatient specialist palliative care beds in England. Read more »
Improving prescribing for people living with dementia
This project aims to support primary care commissioners and CCGs to improve prescribing for people living with dementia across the South West. Read more »
Improving leadership for dementia care in hospitals
This project aims to improve leadership for dementia care in hospitals across the South West through the development of a leadership programme in general hospitals, the facilitation of the Community Hospitals Network and a peer review of community hospitals. Read more »