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National Dementia Strategy

The first ever National Dementia Strategy is a landmark document that will transform the quality of dementia care. It sets out initiatives designed to make the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families better and more fulfilled.

Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy

Published: 3 February 2009

The National Dementia Strategy is backed by £150 million over the first two years. It will increase awareness of dementia, ensure early diagnosis and intervention and radically improve the quality of care that people with the condition receive. Proposals include the introduction of a dementia specialist into every general hospital and care home and for mental health teams to assess people with dementia.

Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy

Consultation on a National Dementia Strategy

The Department held a public consultation as part of the development of the a National Dementia Strategy. This consultation drew on evidence from a wide range of reports and stakeholders, a series of listening events involving over 3,000 people and the recommendations of an External Reference Group.

Worried About Your Memory campaign

Backed by the Department, the Alzheimer’s Society’s Worried About Your Memory? campaign prompts and helps people to consider if their forgetfulness, or that of a friend or relative, is due to just poor memory or the beginning of a medical problem and encourage them to seek medical advice.

Alzheimer's Society press release - 29 May 2008 (opens new window)

Enhancing the Healing Environment : dementia care

Applications are invited from NHS trusts who provide mental health and learning disabilities services to join a new programme to improve the environment for people with dementia. This Department of Health funded initiative follows the success of The King’s Fund’s award-winning Enhancing the Healing Environment programme in 150 trusts throughout England.

Applications for the 10 places available in 2009 may be made by trusts that provide mental health and learning disabilities services to people with dementia. The closing date for applications is 12:00 midday, Friday 27 February 2009.

Improving services and support for people with dementia

A number of reports have emphasised the need to enhance joint health and social care mental health teams in the community so people with dementia and their families and carers get the help and support they need.

Strengthening the involvement of people with dementia

This toolkit provides good practice guidance for practitioners and commissioners on how to engage and communicate with people who have dementia.

Short breaks fact sheet

This fact sheet provides commissioners, providers and planners with information on a variety of models of short breaks including principles that will enable the outcomes specified by service users and their carers to be met and alternatives to the traditional approach to providing short breaks in a care home.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Deliveringadultsocialcare/Olderpeople/NationalDementiaStrategy/index.htm

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