Specialist Care and Support Services

The resources below will be of interest to commissioners and providers developing or managing innovative specialist dementia services to support people in their own homes.

Dementia wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic

New guidance published by NHS England / NHS Improvement sets out a framework to help address the needs of people with dementia in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Independent Evaluation of The Guinness Partnership’s Dementia Project

A new report from the Housing LIN evaluating the Guinness Partnership's dementia-friendliness.

Enabling People with Dementia to Remain at Home: A Housing Perspective

The report and the accompanying Executive Summary set out the key role housing providers, and in particular social housing providers, can play in supporting people living with dementia to stay independent in the home of their choice for as long as possible.

End of Life Care Service for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes in Walsall

Published to coincide with Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016 (9-16 May), this Housing LIN Case Study no 123 focuses on an innovative end of life care service in Walsall initiated through collaboration...

Dementia and Homecare: Driving Quality and Innovation

Published by the UK Homecare Association, this report is the output of the Health and Care Champion Sub-group on Homecare, part of the Prime Minster's Challenge on Dementia (October 2015). It emphasises...

Becoming a dementia friendly organisation

This summary by the Guinness Partnership outlines how is aims to become a dementia friendly organisation so that it makes a difference for customers living with dementia. It reports on a number of...

Working with smaller housing organisations to create dementia friendly organisations

This guide by Orbit Charitable Trust is primarily aimed at small housing associations, but equally useful for all housing providers. It looks at how social landlords can work with care, charity and community...

Personalisation and Dementia

The Mental Health Foundation has published two useful documents for practitioners. The first is a practitioner's guide to self-directed support for people living with dementia, and the second reports...

Dementia and domiciliary care

PSSRU Manchester undertook an investigation into the comparative outcomes and costs of specialist and generic domiciliary care. An expert briefing on the findings and lessons will be of interest to...

Partnership Creates Dementia Care Synergies in Sheltered Housing

This paper was first published in April 2009 in the Journal of Care Services Management, and is available free of charge for a 6-month period by kind permission of Maney Publishing ( http://www.maney.co.uk/journals/csm_...

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Dementia Care Partnership - more than bricks & mortar

This Housing LIN Case Study No30 - describes the work of the Dementia Care Partnership providing a complementary range of specialist services for people with dementia and their carers including home...

Home care service for people with dementia

This Housing LIN Case study No13 describes a pioneering, specialist home care service for people with dementia in the Borough of Poole in Dorset. The services offers support at home and outside the home,...

Floating support for people with dementia

Floating Support for people with dementia has been commissioned jointly by three local authorities in the south-west from Rethink, a membership charity using Supporting People funding. The suite of...