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8th UK Dementia Congress
Over 800 people attended the 8th UK Dementia Congress, held 5-7th November 2013 in Nottingham, to celebrate a coming together care for people living with dementia in care homes, in the community and in...
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Dementia care review
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced plans to inspect more than 150 care homes and acute hospitals to review how people with dementia are cared for in England. The review will focus on: how...
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Cracks in the pathway
This report presents the findings of a Care Quality Commission review of the care people living with dementia receive as they moved between care homes and acute hospitals. The report shows that the...
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Dementia Team of the Year
The South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group and Devon Partnership NHS Trust were jointly named Dementia Team of the Year at a British Medical Journal awards ceremony this week. The award is...
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Tailored resource for carers and care providers on supporting people to live...
This resource published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) highlights the key messages from 10 quality statements which form the quality standard for supporting people to...
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Dementia and comorbidities: Ensuring parity of care
This report published by the International Longevity Centre demonstrates that a failure to prevent, diagnose, and treat depression, diabetes and urinary tract infections in people with dementia could...
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Fix dementia care – NHS and care homes
This report published by the Alzheimer’s Society marks the second phase of a campaign looking at the experiences of people with dementia in a range of health and care settings. It contains the results...
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Dementia Atlas
The Dementia Atlas is an interactive map that plots data about dementia care and support, allowing people to compare the quality of dementia care across the country. The data is grouped in themes based...
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How living with dementia could be
The care pathway for dementia can be difficult to understand due to the complexities of the disease. Any approach has to consider not just issues surrounding the person but also the carer and family,...
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Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia...
This NICE guideline covers diagnosing and managing dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease). It aims to improve care by making recommendations on training staff and helping carers to support people...
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