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Living well with
dementia: A National
Dementia Strategy
- A. What is the
framework/strategy
all about?
- Aims to develop services that
will meet the needs of people
with dementia and their carers
- Aims to develop services that
will meet the needs of people
with dementia and their carers
- B. Who is the
framework/strategy
for?
- People with dementia
- Carers
- Health and social care
professionals
- Anyone affected by dementia
- People with dementia
- C. The strategy has 3
key steps
- 1. Ensure BETTER KNOWLEDGE about
dementia and remove STIGMA
- ACTIONS
- Help everyone to understand
dementia better
- Get rid of the stigma attached
to dementia
- Provide better education and
training for professionals
- Help everyone to understand
dementia better
- ACTIONS
- 2. Ensure EARLY DIAGNOSIS, support
and treatment for people with
dementia and their family and carers
- ACTIONS
- Have an early diagnosis
- Give people the information
they need as early as possible
- Start support and treatment
as early as possible
- Have an early diagnosis
- ACTIONS
- 3. DEVELOP SERVICES to meet
changing needs better
- ACTIONS
- GPs to work side by side with mental health
services, to provide information and support as
soon as possible
- GPs knowing how to spot the first signs of dementia
AND giving everyone with dementia their own
personal dementia adviser to help them
- Having one person who is responsible for dementia
services in a hospital. Helping people with dementia
to stay in their own homes for longer
- GPs to work side by side with mental health
services, to provide information and support as
soon as possible
- ACTIONS
- 1. Ensure BETTER KNOWLEDGE about
dementia and remove STIGMA
- D. 17 Key Objectives
- 1. Raise awareness of dementia and encourage people to seek help
- 2. Good-quality, early diagnosis, support and treatment for people with dementia and their carers, explained in a sensitive way
- 3. Good-quality information for people with dementia and their carers
- 4. asy access to care, support and advice after diagnosis
- 5. Develop structured peer support and learning networks
- 6. Improve community personal support services for people living at home
- 7. Implement the New Deal for Carers (assessment of needs | support | short breaks)
- 8. Improve the quality of care for people with dementia in general hospitals
- 9. Improve intermediate care for people with dementia (so they can stay at home)
- 10. Consider how housing support, housing related services, technology and telecare can help support people with dementia
and their carers
- 11. Improve the quality of care for people with dementia in care homes
- 12. Improve end of life care for people with dementia
- 13. An informed and effective workforce for people with dementia
- 14. A joint commissioning strategy for dementia
- 15. Improve assessment and regulation of health and care services and of how systems are working
- 16. Provide a clear picture of research about the causes and possible future treatments of dementia
- 17. Effective national and regional support for local services to help them develop and carry out the Strategy
- 1. Raise awareness of dementia and encourage people to seek help
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