1. Improving Dementia Care in Carmarthenshire
What did John Bolton say?
Carmarthenshire one of three demonstration sites.
Focus on dementia care.
Joint Health and Social Care Scrutiny Report Recommendations

2. The number of people over 65 with dementia in Carmarthenshire
There are 53 people with dementia under 65.
In Carmarthenshire there are about 1000 people with dementia on GPs Dementia Registers

3. Project Work Plan Map services-how do we use our resources?
Develop a multi agency strategy
Implementation and action plan.
Sustainable and embedded outcomes.
Complete by November 2013
Only Start

5. Meeting Needs
Providing care for the person with dementia and their family

6. 2764 Increasing levels of need
Models of care
The differing levels of need and care for people with dementia, their carers & families
Models of care
The differing levels of need and care for people with dementia, their carers & families
Increasing levels of need

7. Value Base-What is it all about?
Culture Change
Person centred care
Not enough to rearrange the deck chairs
Admitting mistakes of past (present!)
Creating dependency
Reliance on institutional care
Need to do things (very) differently
Look at how we do things
Putting values into practice

8. Progress Mapping of services nearing completion
Carmarthenshire Dementia Action Board
Coordination of Planning
Listening to people with dementia and their carers.

9. People with dementia in Carmarthenshire

10. Hospitals & GPs in Carmarthenshire

11. Carmarthenshire Dementia Action Board
Membership
People who have dementia, who have things to say.
Carers
People with senior responsibility for planning and delivering dementia care and treatment – all sectors.
Work streams
Learning and Development
Dementia Friendly Communities
Service Redesign

12. Dementia Friendly (Supportive) Communities
Work stream members not the ‘usual suspects’.
Wide representation.
What we need to do.
Make it happen.
Select a community? Start small?

13. It is nearly Easter so we end with The Wizard of Oz and Dorothy’s view on dementia care.‘

14. ‘There’s no place like home.’