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Tag Archives: Community Partners
Local Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils (LGA)
Summary Guidance has been released by the Local Government Association (LGA), in collaboration with the Innovations in Dementia community interest company, which explains the responsibility of councils in helping to support people with dementia through the creation of local dementia … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, BSI, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged AGE UK Coventry and Coventry City Council, AGE UK Social Care, Age UK Solihull, Alzheimer’s Australia WA, Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Alzheimer’s Society Maidstone Peer Support Group, ASK Sara Website, Avon and Wilshire MHP, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Barriers to Early Diagnosis, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (UK), Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), BME Communities, British Psychological Society, British Standards Institute, British Standards Institution (BSI), British Standards Institution (BSI): Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, BSI Guidance, BSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia Friendly Communities in England, BSI Standard, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Care Act 2014, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, Commitment to People with Dementia, Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Support, Connect Housing Association, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Councils as Employers, Coventry City Council, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Adventure CIC, Dementia Advisory Group, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Challenge Champion Groups, Dementia Champions, Dementia Champions Programme, Dementia Diaries, Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils, Dementia Friendly Community Framework: Five Domains, Dementia Friendly High Streets, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Friendly Technologies, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Sectors, Dementia-Friendly Shops, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Diagnosis and Support, Differential Impact of Dementia in BAME Communities, Drivers for Change: Dementia Friendly Bus Transport in Northumberland, Encouraging Independence and Social Interaction, Equality Act 2010, Forget Me Not (Swindon), Forget Me Not Initiative, Gateshead Dementia Action Alliance, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Hampshire Dementia Friendly High Street, Hartney Whitney, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Wellbeing and Independence, Housing Learning & Improvement Network (Housing LIN), Housing LIN, iD: Innovations in Dementia, Independence, Independence Choice and Risk, Innovations in Dementia, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Involvement of People with Dementia and Carers, Involving and Engaging People with Dementia (RIPFA), Izzi Seccombe: Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Kent County Council, Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Lesbian Gay Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT), LGA: Local Government Association, Living Well After Diagnosis, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Local Dementia Action Alliances in England, Local Dementia Friendly Communities, Local Government Association: LGA, Maidstone Mentors: Kent and Medway Primary Trust, My Day My Way, Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board, North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards, NSW Dementia Training Study Centre at the University of Wollongong, PAS 1365 (2015): Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Protection from Doorstop Crime, Public Health, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Reading Dementia Action Alliance, Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Regaining Independence, Singing For The Brain, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Innovation Lab Kent (SILK), Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Supporting People to Stay Connected, Swindon Forget Me Not Group, Think Again Programme, Timely Diagnosis, Transport, UK Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Voices of People With Dementia, Wolverhampton City Council, York Station, Yorkshire and Humber DAA
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Loneliness at Christmas Associated With Expected Increases in Accident and Emergency Admissionss (BBC News / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary Members of the public have been urged to keep an eye on elderly friends and neighbours over the Christmas period. It is hoped that good neighbourliness of this kind could help ease pressures on hospital A&E departments. It has … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, 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, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Andrea Sutcliffe: Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Cold-Related Ill Health, Community, Community Action, Community Assets, Community Capacity, Community Care, Community Groups, Community Life, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Personal Support, Community Pharmacies, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy and Public Health, Community Support, Companionship, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Emergency Admission Rates in UK, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Emergency Services, Esther Rantzen, Excess Winter Deaths and Illnesses, Excess Winter Mortality, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Feeling Under the Weather (Campaign), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Friendship, Good Neighbourliness, Help to Live at Home, Independence, Independent Living, Independent Sector, Living at Home, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Neighbourhood Watch, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Neighbourliness, NHS England’s Feeling under the weather? Campaign, NHS Winter Friends Campaign, Preventing Loneliness, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Residents’ Groups, Silver Line, Silver Line Safeguarding ("ChildLine for Older People"), Silver Line Teamed-Up With Care Quality Commission, Silver Line: Friendship Phone Service, SilverLine, Social Isolation, Social Networks, South West Academic Health Science Network, Staying at Home, Support Networks, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Voluntary and Community Action, West of England Academic Health Science Network, Winter Friends, Winter Friends Pledge, Winter Pressures
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Community Health Care Inspections: a New Approach (Care Quality Commission)
Summary The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) has set-out the plans for a “fresh start” in the regulation and inspection of community health care. The inspection of these services will involve teams which include: Expert CQC inspectors. Sector specialists and clinicians … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Integrated Care Systems (AICS), Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Care Integration, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Pathways, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Celebrating Good Care, Changes to CQC Regulation Inspection and Monitoring of Care Services, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Health Care Inspections, Community Health Centres, Community Health Services, Community Hospitals, Community Inpatient Services, Community Mental Health Services, Community Nursing, Community Partners, Community Rehabilitation, Community Rehabilitation Teams, Community Rehabilitation Units, Community Support Services, Community Therapist Services, Community Unit Models, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Community-Dwelling Older People with Dementia, Complex Needs, Continence Care, District Nursing Services, End-of-Life Care Delivered At Home, Evaluating Integrated and Community-Based Care, Experts by Experience (CQC), Exposing Poor Care, Five Key Questions for Community Health, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Visiting Services, Hospital at Home, Hospital At Home Services, Inspecting Community Health Services, Inspecting Large Dispersed Services, Inspection Teams, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Intelligent Monitoring, Interdisciplinary Teams, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Monitoring Community Health Services, Multidisciplinary Teams, Occupational Therapists, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care District Nursing Services, Provision of Acute Services in Community Settings, Quality Standards for Community Health Services, Raising Standards: Putting People First (CQC), Rating Systems, Ratings, Regulating Community Health Services, Role of CQC in Improving Dementia Care, Specialist Community Dental Services, Specialist Nursing Services for People With Longterm Conditions, Support for People with Complex Needs, Wound Care
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Foundation Guidelines for Dementia Friendly Communities (North East Dementia Alliance)
Summary This report, commissioned by the North East Dementia Alliance, might be considered a handbook for people involved in the development of dementia friendly communities. It attempts to identify how dementia friendly communities might be created, covering the core aims … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Accreditation Schemes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, Alzheimer's Society Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Alzheimer’s Society in Wales, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Bradford, Bradford Dementia Environment Project, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Commissioning Pack for Dementia, Community, Community Care Services, Community Development (CD), Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community Research, Community-Based Support, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Debenham Project, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Early Diagnosis, East Midlands, East Midlands Dementia Action Alliance, East Sutherland, Engagement, English National Dementia Strategy, Environment Accreditation Scheme Within the Dementia Friendly Environments NHS Capital Fund, Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Leeds, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Local and Community Level Well-Being, Local Community Groups, Local Context, Local Government, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Networks, Monitoring Dementia Friendliness, National Dementia Strategy, Neighbourhoods for Life, Networks, Networks that Work, North East Dementia Alliance, North East Strategic Health Authority, North West England, Northern Rock Foundation, Northumberland, Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Northumberland the Ballinger Trust Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13, Physical Environment, Plymouth, Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance (PDDA), Plymouth Naval Base, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Principles for Engagement, Quality Outcomes for People With Dementia, Redcar, Resident Engagement, Safer Communities, Social Networks, South West England, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Support Networks, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Torbay, Torbay Dementia Action Alliance, Unlocking Diagnosis, Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Action Alliance
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Neighbourhood Watch Groups Could Provide Care for Elderly? (Telegraph / BBC News)
Summary Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has spoken about Britain’s attitude to the elderly being “uncivilised” and called for the public to acknowledge that lonely and vulnerable pensioners living locally may be in need of help. Norman Lamb would like to encourage neighbourhood watch groups to … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Any Qualified Provider (AQP), Care at Home, Co-operative Community Action, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Community, Community Action, Community Assets, Community Capacity, Community Care, Community Groups, Community Life, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Personal Support, Community Support, Companionship, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Domiciliary Care, Friendship, Generic Domiciliary Care Services, Good Neighbourliness, Help to Live at Home, Home Care, Home Care Support, Home Carers, Home Watch Network, Independence, Independent Living, Independent Sector, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister (Coalition Government), Living at Home, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Neighbourhood Watch, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Neighbourliness, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Preventing Loneliness, Residents’ Groups, Social Isolation, Social Networks, Staying at Home, Support Networks, Voluntary and Community Action
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Voluntary Groups Assist Government to Improve Health and Wellbeing (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has announced the 21 voluntary sector organisations which will participate in the Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme for 2013/14. The programme helps to keep policy makers in touch with the many voluntary and community sector organisations which exist already and … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Action for Prisoners’ Families and Clinks, Agency Networks, Big Society, Big Society and Community Development, Carers Trust, CHANGE, Co-operative Community Action, Co-operatives, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), Cooperation, Department of Health Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Disability Partnership (Royal Mencap Society; Scope; Sense; The National Autistic Society), Disability Rights UK, FaithAction, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme for 2013/14, Help the Hospices, Local Partnerships, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Men’s Health Forum (MHF), Mental Health Providers Forum (MHPF), NACRO, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA), National Autistic Society, National Care Forum (NCF), National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National Housing Federation, National Voices, Partners in Care, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Public Health England (PHE), Race Equality Foundation (REF), Regional Voices, Royal Mencap Society, Scope, Sense, Shaping our Lives National User Network, Sue Ryder, UK Health Forum, Voluntarism, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), Voluntary Sector, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnerships, Volunteering, Volunteers, Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC)
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New Ways of Caring for Elderly People (BBC News)
Summary This BBC News item reports on how communities, neighbourhoods and families have been involved in devising projects aiming to enable pensioners feel more confident that they will be cared for in old age. In York, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity has established Hartrigg Oaks, … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, BBC Health News, Care Credits, Care Credits (Prof. Heinz Wolff), Care Funding, Care Homes, Care4Care, Co-operative Community Action, Co-operatives, Community Care, Community Empowerment, Community Groups, Community Partners, David Blunkett, Isle of Wight, Mark Easton, Mutual Support, Mutuals, Prof. Heinz Wolff, Residential Care Homes, Social Care Funding, University of York, York
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