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.

• www.dementiafriends.org.uk

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