Dementia Partnerships
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 »
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 »
This exercise devised by Dr Paul Russell aims to support GPs to identify problems in coding, which are contributing to low rates of dementia diagnosis on practice registers. Read more »
Dementia Prevalence Calculator
The Dementia Prevalence Calculator presents an opportunity for all health communities to gain a better understanding of their local estimated prevalence of dementia in the community, and among people living in local care homes. Read more »
Dementia 2013: The hidden voice of loneliness
This report, published Alzheimer’s Society, reveals that nearly two thirds (62%) of more than 250,000 people with dementia who live on their own are lonely. This compares to just 24 per cent of over 55 year olds. Read more »
CMG48: Support for commissioning of dementia care
This resource supports commissioners, clinicians and managers to commission high-quality evidence-based care for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
QS30: Supporting people to live well with dementia
This quality standard, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), covers the care and support of people with dementia. Read more »
Building on the Gloucestershire ‘Living Well Handbook’, this project aims to develop a user-designed and owned handbook that will serve as a companion to the dementia journey for people in West Berkshire . Read more »
Low expectations
This report published by the Alzheimer’s Society stresses the need to lift expectations and to strengthen existing minimum standards to boost quality of life for people with dementia in care homes. 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 »