Improving Dementia Services for the Citizens of Nottingham

Clare Routledge - Health and Wellbeing Policy OfficerKate Fisher – Dementia Practice Development Specialist

National Perspective

• Dementia Action Alliance

• Building Dementia Friendly Communities: A priority for everyone

• Dementia 2013 The Hidden Voice of Loneliness

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All by myself…………….

• “Loneliness is as harmful for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and has a destructive impact on our quality of life”. Campaign to End Loneliness – Connections in Older Age

Partnership developments in the city

• Work towards making Nottingham a Dementia Friendly City.• Nottingham’s first Older Persons Festival 1/10/13• Commitment to developing a NCC Older Persons Charter.• Development of NCC Dementia Action Alliance Declaration.• Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST).• Nottingham’s Arts and Older People bid submission.

The Challenges

• Adult Provision restructure• Commissioner/Assessors/Provider tensions• Quality Assurance• NCC DPDS rewrite of Care Plans• Benchmarking

Terry Pratchett - Author

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical

profession, that has helped us to live longer and healthier lives to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home

without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

They say a little knowledge is a

dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as lot

of ignorance.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for

longer And they will run right into the dementia firing range.

How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable

family relationships that traditionally provided the

backbone of care?

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when

you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see

you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I know 3 people who have got better after

a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of

anyone who’s got better from

Alzheimer’s.

Any thoughts?

Questions?

Thank you – Clare and Kate

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