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Dementia: the agenda for respite care
- Authors:
- ALZHEIMER SCOTLAND, ACTION ON DEMENTIA
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer Scotland/Action on Dementia/Mental Health Foundation Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 33p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Describes why respite care services are vitally important to supporting family members, friends and neighbours who care for older people with dementia in Scotland. Sets out what needs to be done to provide such services.
Planning signposts for dementia care services
- Author:
- ALZHEIMER SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aimed at those planning and commissioning services for people with dementia and their carers, as well as carers themselves, service users, and those representing their interests who want to be involved in the development of local plans and services. The report sets out the core services which should be available to individuals throughout the course of their illness, no matter where they live, and details a proposal for the range and volume of those services required to meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers within a 'model' population of 100,000.