Post on 24-Dec-2015
Dementia – a national priority
Alzheimer’s Society
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• 800,000 people living with dementia in the UK.• One in three people over the age of 65 will die
with dementia.• More than 80% of people living in care homes
have a form of dementia.• One in four hospital beds occupied by
someone with dementia.
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Dementia: the size of the challenge
The number of people with dementia will double in the next 40 years
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Diagnosis
• Only 46% people with dementia have a diagnosis.
• There is huge variation in diagnosis rates and progress being made.
Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge
Local Dementia Action AlliancesSign up:
Retailers
Bus companies
Taxi firms
Community groups
Faith bodies
Local authorities
Health Trusts
Commissioners
Housing providers
Emergency services
Creating dementia friendly communities
• By 2015, up to 20 cities, towns and villages will have signed up to become dementia friendly.
• To get support from leading businesses for the PM’s challenge on dementia.
• An awareness-raising campaign.• A recognition process for becoming dementia
friendly.• A Dementia-friendly Communities Programme
led by the Alzheimer’s Society working in partnership with the Dementia Action Alliance.
Dementia Friends
• Aim: a million Dementia Friends by 2015 who have knowledge and confidence to help people with dementia feel understood and included in their community.
• Alzheimer’s Society programme, funded by Cabinet Office and DH.
We are listening…
The Alzheimer's Society (ATL) have been researching how well current qualifications improve workplace practice for health & social care workers and people living with Dementia.
Understanding dementia
Over to you?
Thoughts…
Is current legislation about dementia sufficient to enable minimum standards of care to those living with dementia?
Thoughts…
'Do you believe that if the 'learning outcomes’ within current Dementia qualifications are met, this will provide the learner with enough knowledge and skills to go and work with people living with Dementia or progress onto further study?'
Feedback….
We have been working with Keith Oliver who has reviewed one of the QCF Dementia Qualifications and has been able to provide feedback from his own perspective (someone who has had a leading role in Education and also a person living with Dementia)
Feedback…
Living with dementia
Impact…
Our vision is to support the development and delivery of future Dementia qualifications to ensure they are effective and have a positive impact on the person living with dementia
Our offer…
• Consultancy
• Training to support knowledge requirements (feelings based approaches)
• Master classes
• Commissioner support
Contact
Ann Moulder
Mobile no: 07850 200532
Education & Development Team
Tel: 01904 633581
Email: dementiatraining@alzheimers.org.uk
Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk