GPs and primary health care teams, and health and social care workers in the community have key role in enabling people with dementia, and their carers/families to live well, by

• understanding the experience of people with dementia in the different phases of the dementia journey, and the experience of carers/families;
• promoting people’s independence, and their right to make informed choices;
• ensuring people have easy access to the right support at the right point;
• minimizing unnecessary interventions and preventing physical and mental health crises – for both the person with dementia and their carers/families;
• taking into account current needs, and thinking ahead and planning for future needs;
• mainstreaming dementia in local primary health and community services;
• promoting inclusion regardless of diagnosis;
• making best use of resources; (Minghella, E. and Schneider, K., 2011)