Objective 11. Living well with dementia in care homes
Bristol
Residential Futures project to modernise in-house provision of dementia care homes and develop a more flexible bed-base and links to supporting services, like STAR, via four new Resource Centres. This has included taking advice to inform the redesign of the dementia environment.
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Wiltshire
Commissioning block contracts with some excellent care homes – one in particular was in Chippenham.
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Somerset
Specialised Residential Care (SRC) scheme and the work of Care Focus. There also appears to be firm control of the NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment process and spend.
- Download a report about the Specialised Residential Care scheme (MS Word 24 KB)
- Download a report about the Care Focus dementia lead initiative (MS Word 120 KB)
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Plymouth
Commissioning developments for care home provision –dignity and care incentives/ the provider forum/safeguarding review team.
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South Gloucestershire
Humphrey Repton House nursing home with the ‘footsteps garden’ containing reminiscent objects (old car, bus stop, seaside, etc) and “Wall of Smiles” – to remember residents who have died, each has a ceramic tile designed by relatives/carers.
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Gloucestershire
Medication reviews were carried out in some care homes with an economic evaluation by UWE (University of West of England) which suggest that if this was replicated across all care homes in Gloucestershire there could be potential savings of £2.5m.
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