This project aims to achieve excellence in end of life care for people with dementia living in North Hampshire nursing homes. This will be achieved through Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (SPC CNS) mentoring of care home staff. Read more »
This project aims to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers living in Corwall, ensuring they receive timely diagnosis and support to live well at home or in a care home, to end of life. Read more »
The project is using an evidence based methodology to improve the knowledge, attitude and competencies of front line health staff in the care of people with dementia across Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. Read more »
The project aims to give people with dementia and their carers living in West Berkshire access to the information they want and need via a variety of media, including a local Dementia information website, to inform, empower and improve lives. Read more »
This project aims to move Bristol towards becoming a ‘dementia-friendly city’ in which people with dementia can enjoy the same opportunities to take part in a social life, live independently and engage in everyday activity as other people, without fear of stigma or rejection. Read more »
This project will support people with dementia and their carers/family by providing new courses that people can use once they have had a diagnosis of dementia. All these courses will be in the community near to where people live in Bristol. Read more »
This project will implement a training and mentoring package to develop Circles of Support for people with dementia in Hampshire. Read more »
This project will implement a training and mentoring package to develop Circles of Support for people with dementia in North Hampshire. Read more »
This project aims to adopt the Gnosall primary care based memory assessment approach to improve dementia diagnosis in harder to reach communities in Buckinghamshire. Read more »
This project aims to deliver Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) training to staff working in Day Centres and Extra Care Housing Schemes across West Berkshire, enabling more people with dementia to engage in this evidence based approach for longer. Read more »
This project aims to develop a more user-friendly care pathway for people living with dementia in Oxfordshire by providing easier access to assessment for early diagnosis and support within primary care settings. Read more »
This project will establish a community based Dementia Team that will identify, lead and maintain quality improvements in dementia care across acute and community settings in East and West Berkshire. Read more »
This project aims to accelerate the pace of improvement in the pathway of care for people with dementia and their carers living in Oxfordshire by providing a programme of dementia training and education for health and social care staff. Read more »
This project will support people in rural areas of Bath and North East Somerset to achieve early diagnosis of dementia and get the support they want in the way that they want it, enabling people to live at home in the way that they choose. Read more »
This Bristol-based project will put people with dementia at the heart of hospital design to improve their experience of care, highlighting the important role the environment can play in supporting innovation in service delivery and care quality. Read more »
This project aims to achieve the first step towards South Gloucestershire becoming a more dementia friendly community by delivering specific actions in the Cribbs Causeway area. Read more »
This project aims to create a more inclusive community across West Berkshire so that people with dementia feel they can continue to enjoy life, live as independently as possible and be part of the community. Read more »
This project will develop Dementia friendly communities across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole, increasing public awareness of dementia and assisting people with dementia to remain independent and to have choice and control over their lives. Read more »
This project aims to use the toolkit developed by Hampshire County Council to establish dementia friendly communities in Farnham and Surrey Heath. Read more »
This project will deliver a new service to develop Dementia friendly communities capable of supporting people to live well with dementia in Guildford and Waverley. Read more »
This project will support the development of dementia friendly communities in Kent and Medway, enabling people living with dementia to remain independent and have choice and control over their lives. Read more »
This project aims to support the development of Dementia Friendly Communities to reduce isolation, anxiety and exclusion, and improve the quality of life for those with dementia and their families living in North West Surrey. Read more »
This project aims to make Somerset dementia friendly place in which people with dementia are valued, befriended and encouraged to live independently and engage in everyday activity. Read more »
This project will deliver a programme of awareness-raising, learning and volunteer action to create a network of 60 informed, supportive, dementia-friendly communities across Oxfordshire. Read more »
This project aims to create a dementia friendly Crawley that improves the quality of life for people living with dementia now and those who are affected by dementia in the future. Read more »
This project aims to make Plymouth a dementia friendly city in which people with dementia can enjoy the same opportunities to take part in a social life, live independently and engage in everyday activity as other people, without fear of stigma or rejection. Read more »
This project aims to dedicate a ward area with an outside area and tailor the environment to improve the wellbeing and enhance the recovery of people with dementia whilst at Frimley Park Hospital. Read more »
This project will support dementia Link nurses in West Kent to work in primary care and proactively identify, diagnose, triage and assess people with dementia and provide appropriate prescribing and post diagnostic support. Read more »
The Dementia Shared Lives Project, will seek to develop a bank of Shared Lives placements, where people open their own homes to provide care to people with dementia, these placements could be used for long term care, rehabilitation/recuperation, respite short breaks and social and day activity. Read more »
This project will recruit 5 Dementia support workers to improve the support, information and co-ordination of services for people living with dementia in Plymouth. Read more »
This project aims to involve people living with dementia in designing and shaping dementia services in Crawley. Read more »
This project aims to affect behaviour change amongst health and social care staff in Hampshire so they are better equipped to support people with dementia and their carers to achieve their care preferences to the very end of their lives. Read more »
The project aims to establish sustainable dementia friendly communities across the county of Hampshire, reaching as full a range of different communities as possible. Read more »
This project will create dementia friendly communities in North Hampshire, specifically responding to the demographic changes and the increasing levels of need emanating from diverse communities. Read more »
This project will deliver a single point of service information for people with dementia and their carers in East Berkshire Read more »
This project aims to stop the cycle of readmission in crisis by improving end of life care planning starting when a person with dementia is first admitted to a Dorset hospital in an emergency. Read more »
This project aims to improve the quality of service for people living with dementia in Oxfordshire by integrating the established care home support service with a new mental health in-reach service. Read more »
This project aims to improve care and support to people living with dementia and their carers in Gloucestershire in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and premature residential care admission as well as to reduce length of stay after a hospital admission. Read more »
This project aims to improve the early diagnosis of dementia by increasing the number of initial screening assessments and raising awareness about the benefits of assessment and early diagnosis as part of an overarching Aging Well campaign across East Berkshire. Read more »
This project will deliver improved support for people with dementia and their carers living in the community by extending the capacity of the Community Care Teams in Fareham and Gosport. Read more »
This project will deliver improved support for people with dementia and their carers living in the community by extending the capacity of the Community Care Teams in South East Hampshire. Read more »
This project will support people with dementia to be discharged back to their own home as soon as possible following an attendance at A&E or an admission to an acute hospital in West Kent. Read more »
This project will support people living with dementia in Kent and Medway to remain in their own homes, including care homes, avoid unnecessary admission to hospital and reduce the prescription of antipsychotic drugs. Read more »
This project will deliver Dementia Awareness training to support people in East Berkshire to better understand the different types of dementia, some of the associated behaviours and reasons behind them. Read more »
This project aims to improve the experience of people with dementia whilst in acute hospitals across Kent and Medway. Read more »
This project will improve the provision of end of life care for people living with dementia in care homes within the Surrey Downs area. Read more »
This project aims to develop dementia friendly communities in Cornwall and to deliver community and hospital peer support alongside the provision of meaningful activities. Read more »
This project aims to provide a new pathway of care for people with dementia admitted to the Royal United Hospital Bath, which puts carers and patients in the ‘driving seat’, improving discharge and reducing unnecessary admissions in future. Read more »
This project aims to introduce portable personal safety device to transform the lives of vulnerable individuals living with dementia by giving them greater independence and providing effective personalised support, wherever they go. Read more »
This project aims to ensure patients with dementia living in care homes in Buckinghamshire only have medication prescribed for them that meets their specific needs and enables them to enjoy life and live with dignity. Read more »
This project aims to create a Dementia-Friendly Island building on and enhancing the existing Isle of Wight Dementia Action Alliance. Read more »
This project aims to make Gloucestershire a dementia friendly community improving the quality of life for people living with dementia now and those who are affected by dementia in the future. Read more »
This project aims to ensure that staff working in University Hospital Southampton are dementia aware and have the appropriate skills to meet the needs of people with dementia. Read more »
This project aims to reduce the prescription of antipsychotic medication for people living with dementia in care homes across Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead. Read more »
This project aims to deliver a Dementia Crisis Respite Service in North West Surrey to prevent breakdown of a caring situation or care package that would probably have led to hospital admission or admission to a care home. 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 »
This South Gloucestershire based project aims to share good practice and ensure that all patients and carers get equal access to post diagnosis support and information via a range of media: face to face, handbooks, leaflets, telephone and the web. Read more »
This project will establish a primary care based model of memory assessment to increase the recognition, diagnosis and targeted case management of people living with dementia in Kent and Medway. Read more »
This project aims to commission Antipsychotic Prescribing Support Pharmacists to review and, where appropriate, reduce the prescribing of anti-psychotics medication in a supported manner for people living with dementia in Sussex. Read more »
This project aims to deliver a dementia friendly hospital environment at the King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor through the provision of a suite of Reminiscence Pods which support flexible reminiscence therapy. Read more »
This project aims to increase diagnosis rates in the Surrey Downs community by adopting an innovative approach of using Specialist Link Nurses. Read more »
This project will commission a Dementia Support Worker Service to develop a support network for people with dementia, their family and carers living in North Somerset. Read more »
This project will provide support to carers of people with dementia in 21 General Practices across North Hampshire. Read more »
This project aims to commission Admiral Nurses to provide specialist and personalised support to people with dementia and their families and carers in Sussex. Read more »
This project aims to use technology to support the cognitive and emotional needs of people with dementia and their carers living in Bath and North East Somerset. Read more »
This project aims to develop an innovative service to improve the quality of life of people with dementia through the development of a care home learning community in Torbay and South Devon. Read more »
This project aims to support communities in Buckinghamshire to respond positively to memory issues by better understanding the needs of someone with memory problems and working together to help people with dementia live well within their own communities. Read more »
This project seeks to improve the quality and consistency of domiciliary care delivered to people with dementia in Berkshire, ensuring that staff are aware and adequately trained in dementia care using a relationship and person centered approach. Read more »
This project will deliver the Department of Health approved ‘Understanding Dementia’ training course to educate carers in North Hampshire about dementia from first diagnosis through the dementia journey. Read more »
In partnership with the Voluntary Sector and Local Authority this project will support people with dementia and their carers/family post diagnosis in Bristol, through volunteering. Read more »
This project aims to esatblish a care home in-reach team to improve the quality of care delivered to people with dementia living in residential care homes and nursing homes across West Berkshire. Read more »