Educate; promote
Questions to consider
- what is the ‘diagnosis gap’ in my practice?
- what are the needs of people living with dementia, on my practice list?
- what do our patients’ experience tell us? what do our staff tell us?
- how can we improve their experience, and achieve better outcomes?
- do patients and carers/families have access to the right information and support, at the right time?
DRIVER: True prevalence for GP patient registered list
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Estimate true prevalence and calculate local diagnosis rate:
Promote and support dementia friendly communities. |
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DRIVER: Diagnosis rate for GP registered patient list
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Use true local prevalence as a baseline in order to establish ‘diagnosis gap’ and local trajectories for improvement.Estimate:
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DRIVER: Knowledge, skills and capacity
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| Listen to the voices of people living with dementia. |
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| Review learning needs, and build in to General Practice team development plans training and education in dementia recognition, assessment, and care. |
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| Consider new roles, and new ways of working to support people with memory problems and a diagnosis of dementia, and their carers/families in primary care and the community. |
DRIVER: Recognition and support
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| Ensure patients and carers/families have access to a range of information about memory problems, and dementia |
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| Promote and support dementia friendly communities. |
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