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 »
This guide published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is about enabling people who want to die at home to do so and improving the quality of care they receive. Read more »
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 »
Social Care Institute for Excellence has launched a new service called ‘Find Me Good Care’, to help people find good care in response to research that reveals many people are mystified by the care system. Read more »
This guideline makes specific recommendations on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), fronto temporal dementia, vascular dementia and mixed dementias, as well as recommendations that apply to all types of dementia. Read more »
The dementia e-learning programme, produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, is suitable for both health and social care staff and carers. Read more »
This briefing summarises research which considers the role of the natural environment in promoting health, wellbeing and social care. The findings highlighted include: the importance of access to local green space in promoting both physical and mental health, and in improving social integration hat the natural envornment can help to reduce aggressive behaviour with different… Read more »