1 / 12

Challenging Dementia in Brent

Challenging Dementia in Brent. Name of Speaker Charlie MacNally Panel:__________________________ 25 th October 2013. The statistics relating to Dementia show what a wide spread and pernicious disease it is. There are currently 800,000 people with dementia in the UK.

jeremy-pitts
Download Presentation

Challenging Dementia in Brent

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Challenging Dementia in Brent Name of Speaker Charlie MacNallyPanel:__________________________ 25th October 2013

  2. The statistics relating to Dementia show what a wide spread and pernicious disease it is. • There are currently 800,000 people with dementia in the UK. • There are over 17,000 younger people with dementia in the UK. • There are over 25,000 people with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK. • There will be over a million people with dementia by 2021.

  3. The statistics relating to Dementia show what a wide spread and pernicious disease it is • Two thirds of people with dementia are women. • The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group. • Two thirds of of people over 95 do not have dementia • Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community

  4. National shame of forgotten older people

  5. 4 Key Objectives of the Adult Social Care Strategy • Prevention • Early Intervention • Creative Support Planning • Zero Tolerance of Abuse

  6. Prevention • Joint working with NHS to improve sign posting and support for those newly diagnosed • Commitment to reducing social isolation of suffers and their carers • The development of a dementia strategy in line with the principles of dementia friendly communities • Increasing use of Assistive Technology

  7. Early Intervention • Dementia Café which will open in December • Kingsbury Resource Centre • Enhanced Reablement service with additional therapy support • Provides a package for up to 6 weeks/72 hours plus potentially 6-12 hours of OT and Physio therapeutic intervention where appropriate

  8. Creative Support Planning • Approved Mental Health Practitioners embedded in Older Peoples Team • Increasing the number of Admiral Nurses from 2 to 6 with the NHS • A more proactive approach by GPs supported by social workers specialising in supporting older people.

  9. Safeguarding • A dedicated multi disciplinary safeguarding team • A new team specialising in monitoring residential care placements • An increased focus on community based support.

  10. charlie.macnally@brent.gov.uK

More Related