Dementia

This section features reports from work we have specifically supported around dementia through the Enabling Independence and Choice programme. Reports are shown in order of publication with most recent first.

The Foundation is working with the North East Dementia Alliance; a partnership of health, social care, voluntary and private sector organisations who work to drive up improvements in health and care, create dementia friendly communities and improve research. Click here for further information.

 

Dementia: A North East Perspective

Debbie Smith  has produced a report for the Foundation, outlining the state of dementia care in the North East, as of May 2011. The report provides an overview of the work that is being undertaken to support people with dementia and their carers by statutory, voluntary and education sectors. It highlights progress made and gaps in service development and provision; setting this work against the English policy context and the views and experiences of people with dementia and their carers.  The Foundation has worked with Debbie to produce a second ‘Think’ report, which makes some suggestions about what could usefully be done to take forward this area of work in the North East.

We have also included links to two documents that we have referenced extensively. The documents by Michael Jackson provide demographic and service profiles for dementia in the North East. These and other useful documents about dementia in the North East, including research on dementia friendly communities and the needs of minority communities, can be downloaded from Public Health Intelligence North East’s website, under the Social Care North East group at: www.phine.org.uk