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During 2018, stakeholders from the health and social care system, and the charitable sector, were asked to comment on the progress of the actions set out in the Challenge on dementia 2020 implementation plan and what else needed to be done to complete them.
This report summarises the responses and sets out revised actions for 2018 to 2020.
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This paper aims to compare changes over two years in patients' health‐related quality of life (HRQL) with the health and social care costs of diagnosis and treatment of people newly referred to MAS.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Dementia presents a significant challenge to health systems and to the person and family affected. Home care is increasingly seen as a key service in addressing this challenge in a person-centred and cost-effective way. Intensive Home Care Packages (IHCPs) were introduced in Ireland to provide personalised and high levels of support for people with dementia to remain at home or be discharged home from hospital, and to build on the work of the HSE & Genio Dementia Programme. This realist evaluation is concerned with real world questions of feasibility and effectiveness; specifically understanding in what ways IHCPs work, how optimum outcomes are achieved, for whom and in what contexts do IHCPs work best.
In order to reduce the level of risk and ensure positive clinical outcomes for patients and staff it was decided to introduce a new system known as ‘Zonal Engagement and Observations’, which aimed to ensure appropriate observation of individual patients without the need to assign particular nurse to be in close proximity to the patient for long periods of time. Zonal observations and engagement aims to provide patients with increased activity and therapeutic engagement and to assess patient’s mental and physical health and document this in real time.
Valerie Provan is a Nurse Consultant on Ruskin Unit, an assessment unit in Carlisle for older adults with organic mental illnesses such as Dementia. It is the only nurse led treatment centre of its kind in the country and several other trusts have visited to see how it could be replicated elsewhere.
The new design focuses on themed points of interest, including a phone box with yellow pages and 1970’s phone, a bus stop style relaxation zone which looks out onto fields and a café style dining room with a view of York Minster.
The bedroom area has also been designed to replica shopping parade and includes a music shop, a general store and a newsagent.
A range of different objects, which have been chosen from the 1950’s onwards, have also been placed around the ward to use as prompts and to collect and move around. This helps to promote conversation and reminiscence for the service users on the ward and act as a way for carers to help converse with prompt sheets around the ward.
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From the August/September 2018 issue of Dementia together magazine, the Alzhiemer's Society report on the collaboration between Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Dove House Hospice that's improving end of life care for people with dementia.
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The DRRT is a community-based service that aims to improve the health and well-being of people with dementia at times of crisis, by delivering rapid assessment and intensive support. By providing support in people’s homes, the team aims to reduce the need for admission into specialist dementia hospital beds, reducing the disruption and confusion that can be created by hospital admission.
The DRRT is provided by a multi-disciplinary team which includes mental health nurses, psychiatrists, occupational therapists and health care assistants
Research shows that changing from white to blue plates enables patients with dementia to see food better as sometimes, they experience difficulties with their sight and perception. For example, chicken, mashed potatoes, porridge, white bread and other typically pale-coloured foods stand out more on blue plates and encourage individuals to eat more. In turn, this will reduce food wastage.
Access times for, the costs and overload of hospital services are an increasingly salient issue for healthcare managers in many countries. Rising demand for hospital care has been attributed partly to unplanned admissions for older people, and among these partly to the increasing prevalence of dementia. The paper makes a preliminary evaluation of the logic model of a Dementia Learning Community (DLC) intended to reduce unplanned hospital admissions from care homes of people with dementia. A dementia champion in each DLC care home trained other staff in dementia awareness and change management with the aims of changing work routines, improving quality of life, and reducing demands on external services.
Mental health and physical health experts from two local NHS Trusts have come together to improve care for patients living with dementia.
Staff from Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s (CWP) Croft Ward have been working alongside their colleagues from East Cheshire NHS Trust to share knowledge around topics such as falls prevention, improving the care environment, helpful therapies (including music, sensory, art and physiotherapy) and individualised end-of-life care to support the physical and mental health needs of people with dementia.
Through redesigning the service, the rate at which patients are given an appointment and assessed in less than six weeks has increased from 40 to 95 percent.
This involved utilising the skills of different health professionals and working with the patient experience team get feedback on how to improve the process.
The Trust’s Memory Support Worker Team has helped create a film to showcase their work.
The team, which was set up in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society in 2015, works with people in Leeds who have memory problems, and their families. They ensure that those living with dementia are able to access meaningful information, advice and support. By doing this, they’ve enabled staff in the Memory Services in the Trust to re-focus their efforts on their clinical role.
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is introducing a new approach to dementia assessment and treatment for patients in Yeovil and the surrounding areas in response to continued difficulties in recruiting registered mental health nurses to Magnolia Ward.
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