Dementia Action Alliance
The Dementia Action Alliance brings together organisations across England committed to transforming the lives of people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
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Dementia Health Integration Team Bristol and South Gloucestershire
The Dementia Health Integration Team (HIT) is a team of professionals who are all working together to transform care for dementia patients across Bristol and South Gloucestershire through comprehensive research, integrating and improving care services, and by creating dementia-friendly communities. Read more »
Dementia Resource Suite
The Dementia Resource Suite contains tools and resources developed by pupils and teachers as part of an intergenerational project, to create dementia friendly communities in 22 pioneer schools across England in 2012-13. Read more »
Peer support networks and dementia advisers: evaluation
This report, published by the Department of Health, provides the findings of the Healthbridge evaluation into the role that dementia advisers and peer support networks can provide in post diagnostic support for people with dementia and their carers. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Integrated Care: Our Shared Commitment
This document sets out how local areas can use existing structures like Health and Wellbeing Boards to bring together local partners to make further steps towards integration. Read more »