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Age UK Dementia Services
Offer specialist support services for people with dementia
• One to one – visiting people at home• Group activities
• Unique role of memory advisor
JSNA issues and our services
• Emphasis on diagnosis, but what next?(post diagnostic care)
• Making sense of services: “whole systems”(cohesion and collaboration)
• Supporting family carers around their lives(support and empower carers)
Issues affecting people with memory loss
• Diagnosis and loss of personhood
Isolation and professional “friends” – impact of the condition
Lack of community awareness and understanding of symptoms
Investing in the voluntary sector
• What we do so well• Enough staff for the scale of need?
• Transport for frail elderly – physical support for 85+• Quality of care in care homes• Free respite – to free up carers