The NHS South of England Dementia Challenge Fund enabled local communities to identify and implement practical solutions to the problems faced by people living with dementia. This knowledgebase provides detailed information about the projects which have been awarded funding and offers a repository for resources emerging from the projects. We hope that this will promote engagement and enhance the spread of best practice and learning.
These projects are helping to create dementia friendly communities in which people with dementia can enjoy the same opportunities to take part in a social life, live independently and engage in everyday activity as other people, without fear of stigma or rejection.
Early diagnosis and an improved diagnosis pathway underpin the delivery of effective dementia services. These projects are using a range of mechanisms, including improving coding, case finding, targeted screening, and education to improve recognition, assessment, and diagnosis.
Find out more about work to provide improved support for carers and families of people living with dementia. Discover a wide range of innovative initiatives including education, training and flexible respite care for carers from first diagnosis through the dementia journey.
Find out about projects supporting people with dementia to live in their own home through self care and support for carers. This includes projects seeking to reduce unnecessary hospital admission and promote re-ablement in the community following timely discharge.
Improved end of life care for people with dementia is key theme of the National Dementia Strategy. Explore projects which aim to stop the cycle of readmission in crisis by improving end of life care planning for people with dementia when they are first admitted to hospital.
Supporting people living with dementia in a care home to be as self-reliant and in control as they can be is complex and demanding. Learn about projects developing the care home workforce and creating new ways of working to transform care home support services.
Discover projects which aim to drive up the quality of care and compassion experienced by people with dementia whilst in hospital, promoting increased support for independent living, preventing unnecessary hospital admission and premature admission into residential care.
There are a range of projects developing new ideas to build on the work of the Call to Action in order to maintain the progress made in establishing alternatives to medication for people with dementia who are presenting with behaviours that challenge.
The NHS South of England Dementia Challenge Fund enabled local communities across the South of England to respond to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, launched in 2012. The Challenge encouraged local communities to identify and implement practical solutions to the problems faced by people living with dementia.
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