Dementia Partnerships
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 »
This Alzheimer’s Society factsheet explains the link between Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, and the benefits of having MCI diagnosed. Read more »
This best practice guide has been developed in consultation with an advisory group of leading clinicians specialising in dementia. Read more »
This leaflet is for people with dementia and their carers who want to know more about behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and how they can be prevented and treated. Read more »
This report provides evidence from over 2,000 carers, people with dementia and home care workers on the aspirations, experiences and outcomes of providing dementia care in the community in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more »
This is me
‘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 »
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 »
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 »
In their own words
These four films follow the experiences of people with different stages of Alzheimer’s. The first three films follow the experiences of Bill Wilson, Daryl Munday and Stan Lintern. In part four Kanta and Prabhakant Patel talk about their mother, Chanchalben Patel who sadly died in 2004. Read more »
Dementia UK (2007)
This report into the prevalence and cost of dementia shows that as the UK’s population ages the number of people with dementia will grow substantially. It also shows that dementia costs the UK £17 billion a year. Read more »