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Developing services for people with dementia
- Authors:
- McDONALD Ann, HEATH Becky
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 13(3), September 2009, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors describe a study carried out in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, funded by the Department of Health, examining services across the statutory, voluntary and private sectors and exploring how national policy was being interpreted to meet local need. The research looked at how agencies make sense of and apply national guidance on services for people with dementia, the map of services across the region and the extent to which this represents partnership within a mixed economy of care, any examples of innovative practice that can be presented for wider dissemination, and problems and gaps in service provision identified by strategic managers, frontline managers and practitioners, and by service users and carers. The findings were that services for older people with dementia are underdeveloped compared to those for older people generally, but that there is the potential to develop community-based and inclusive services for people who have dementia.