1. Delivering Integrated Dementia Care Veronica King, Alzheimer’s Society

2. Rising to the Dementia Challenge
Increased awareness of dementia
Diagnosis 67% - but wider variation
Hospital dementia CQUIN
Increasing numbers of Dementia Advisors
Increasing number of dementia trained staff
1.5 million Dementia Friends
Over 150 Dementia Friendly Communities
First ever national Dementia Institute

4. Dementia-friendly health and care settings?
Hospitals
3.2 million hospital bed days.
Over 40% of beds occupied by people with dementia.
Excessive hospital stays.
High level of readmission.
Care homes
70% of residents have dementia.
GP and acute care relationship.
Dementia friendly environment.
Community engagement.
Home care
Limited access to home care.
Services stretched or reduced.
High turnover of staff.
Dementia can be the success criteria for integrated health and social care.

5. Devolution and Dementia
Maintaining diagnosis rates and focus on post-diagnosis support.
Supporting Dementia Friendly Communities: Healthy New Towns, Health as a Social Movement.
Each part of the country will develop plans for this by 2017, to be implemented by 2020.
Local areas will integrate in different ways using a range of models which the government supports.
44 Sustainability Transformation Plans, NHSE Vanguards, Better Care Fund.
City devolution deals: Greater Manchester, Cornwall, North East.

6. Scale of the change
Vanguard sites
City Devolution Deals

7. What is the gold standard for integrated dementia care?
Over 70% of people with dementia have co-morbidities
What works for dementia, works for frail elderly

8. New models of care vanguards

9. GM-Devolution: Dementia United

10. Thank you