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Working Together to Improve Dementia Care Sara Deakin, Practice Development Matron for Older People and Dementia

Working Together to Improve Dementia Care Sara Deakin, Practice Development Matron for Older People and Dementia

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Working Together to Improve

Dementia Care

Sara Deakin, Practice Development Matronfor Older People and Dementia

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Why is it important.

• More people developing dementia.• 1 in 4 hospital beds occupied • Estimated 820,000 people in the UK have

dementia.• 16,000 people under 65years have dementia.• Costs UK £23 billion each year.

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National Dementia Strategy: Living well with dementia (2009)

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Why is it important?

• We all need to understand more about the disease because we will all come across people, at work, in our communities and in our families who will develop Dementia.

• At NUH we have developed a dementia teaching strategy and are a committed to improving dementia care by training and education for ALL staff.

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Dementia Education Strategy

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Areas of care to consider.

• Person-Centred Care.

• Communication.

• Nutrition.

• Environment

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Providing Person-Centred Care

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Person-Centred Care•V – VALUING people with dementia as a person with the respect that this implies•I – Treating people as INDIVIDUALS meeting the unique needs of the person•P – Looking a the world from the perspective of the PERSON. •S – provide a positive SOCIAL environment in which the person can experience relative wellbeing and has the opportunity for social and loving relationships(Brooker 2004)

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The person with DEMENTIA vs the PERSON with dementia

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‘About Me’ Booklet

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Carer Engagement

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Dementia Champion Network

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Transforming Dementia Care

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Next Steps

• How can we work more closely to improve care for our patients who have dementia?

• How can we share best practice?

• What are the challenges/barriers?

• What can we do to overcome these?