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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The dementia e-learning programme, produced by the Social Care
Institute for Excellence, is suitable for both health and
social care staff and carers.
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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…
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Dementia Partnerships
Getting to know the person with dementia – the
importance of memories