This document presents the Department of Health’s revised implementation plan for ‘Living Well with Dementia – A National Dementia Strategy’, published in February 2009. It updates the previous implementation plan for the Strategy, published in July 2009.

It sets out four priorities:

• good-quality early diagnosis and intervention for all;
• improved quality of care in general hospitals;
• living well with dementia in care homes; and
• reduced use of antipsychotic medication.

Download: Quality outcomes for people with dementia