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Category Archives: Dementia Action Alliance
Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia: Annual Progress Report (Department of Health)
Summary This report gives an account of progress in the first year of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. The achievements against the three main areas of the challenge are described, with progress reports from the three Dementia Challenge Champion … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, An Innovation Challenge Prize (Dementia), Angela Rippon, Awareness, Awareness Raising, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, BioBank (National Cohort), Bolton Dementia Action Alliance, Brain Scans, Care and Compassion, Care and Support White Paper, Care Homes, Carer Support, Carers, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Indicators, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Payment Framework, Compassion, Compassion and Care, Coventry Dementia Action Alliance, Dame Sally C. Davies, David Cameron, Dementia Care and Support Compact, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Case Finding Scheme, Dementia Champions Programme, Dementia Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friends, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Health and Care Group, Dementia Innovation Challenge Prize, Dementia Pledge, Dementia Research Portal, Dementia Risk Assessments, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Derbyshire Dementia Action Alliance, Dignity, Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, East Midlands Regional Board, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), English Community Care Association, ESRC, Essex County Council, Falmouth Dementia Action Alliance, Francis Inquiry, Francis Report, Health and Care Champion Group, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Hertfordshire County Council, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing for Older People, Information and Advice, Information Needs of Carers, Information Needs of People with Dementia, Innovation Challenge Prize, Integration, Jeremy Hughes (Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive), Leicestershire Dementia Action Alliance, Lincoln Dementia Action Alliance, Living Well with Dementia Research, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MAGDR, MAGDR: Ministerial Advisory Group on Dementia Research, Medical Research Council (MRC), Memory Services, Memory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP), Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, Ministerial Advisory Group on Dementia Research, Ministerial Advisory Group on Dementia Research (MAGDR), MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Cambridge, MSNAP Accreditation, MSNAP: Memory Services National Accreditation Programme, National Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Payment Framework, National Dementia CQUIN, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Research, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NHS Health Check Programme, NHS Institute, NHS Reform, NHS South West, NICE, NIHR Translational Research Collaboration, NIHR: National Institute for Health Research, Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance, Northamptonshire Dementia Action Alliance, Nottinghamshire Dementia Action Alliance, Nursing and Care Quality Forum, Our Health, Personalised Care Planning, Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia: Annual Report (2013), Professor Alistair Burns, Public Health England, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Dementia Registers, Research Champion Group, Social Care, South Lincolnshire Dementia Action Alliance, Staffordshire Dementia Action Alliance, Tavistock Dementia Action Alliance, Torbay Dementia Action Alliance, Translational Research, UKHCA, United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA), Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance, West Midlands Dementia Action Alliance, Wolverhampton Dementia Action Alliance, Yorkshire & Humber Dementia Action Alliance
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Right Care (Invitation Letter): Creating Dementia-Friendly Hospitals (Dementia Action Alliance)
Summary The Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), in partnership with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has distributed this letter inviting leaders of NHS acute trusts to sign up to “The Right Care: a call to action to improve the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Dementia Action Alliance, Falls Prevention, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged CQUIN Dementia Goal, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, Creating Dementia-Friendly Hospitals (Dementia Action Alliance), Dementia CQUIN, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Falls Reduction, Generalised Hospital Mortality, Hospital Falls Prevention, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Mortality, National Dementia CQUIN, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Professor Alistair Burns, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Right Care, Right Care (Invitation Letter), Right Care Programme, Right Care: Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, Simon Kitchen (DAA Head of Secretariat: Alzheimer’s Society), Simon Kitchen (Dementia and Acute Care: Call to Action Taskforce Chair)
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The Right Care: Improving Care for People with Dementia (Department of Health / NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement / Dementia Action Alliance)
[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2012]. Summary The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, in partnership with the Dementia Action Alliance, is launching a … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Ward for Dementia, Assessment and Diagnosis, Care Planning, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Champions, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Diagnosis and Assessment, Discharge Planning, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Hospital Discharge, Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Needs Assessments, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Right Care, Personalised Care Planning, QIPP Right Care Programme, Right Care, Right Care Programme, Right Care: Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals
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Mental Health Liaison Services for General and Community Hospitals: Service Specification for Dementia (Department of Health)
Summary This specification was designed to assist commissioners in the delivery of a service to support general and community hospitals in delivering better care to people with dementia. It was released as part of the Dementia Commissioning Pack in mid-2011, … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Antipsychotics, Antipsychotics in Elderly People with Dementia, Assessment and Diagnosis, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, BPSD, BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Call to Action on Antipsychotic Drugs (Dementia Action Alliance), Care Planning, Checking Medication, Commissioning Liaison Mental Health Services in Acute Hospitals (JCP-MH), Community Hospitals, Dementia Action Alliance, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Commissioning Pack, Dementia Liaison Services, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Geriatric Liaison Teams, Hospital Discharge, Liaison Mental Health Services, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Liaison Services, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Liaison Service Pathway, Mental Health Liaison Services, Mental Health Liaison Services for Dementia Care in Hospitals, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Psychiatric Liaison Team, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Psychotropic Medication
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Key Dementia-Related Reports: a Pictorial Bibliography (University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 2, September 2011]. Summary This web page gives a neat summary of the important reports of relevance to people working for the Association for … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alzheimer's Disease International, Association of Dementia Studies, Bibliography, Care Quality Commission, End of Life Care, Health and Social Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), University of Worcester
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Treatment and Care for People with Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (Alzheimers Society)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 1 Issue 12, July 2011]. Summary A 27 page “best practice guide” has been designed to assist health and social care professionals in their efforts to decide … Continue reading
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Tagged Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Royal College of General Practitioners
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