The Prime Ministers’s challenge on dementia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-NKSMVYHc&feature=youtu.be

David talks about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia to society about how we respond to people that have dementia to support them to live the lives they want to live.

Key points

The Prime Minister as challenged us all to:

• raise the awareness around dementia
• develop the capability and capacity of staff working with people with dementia
• increase the numbers of people diagnosed with dementia (only 40% of people with dementia receive a formal diagnosis)
• ensure the quality of services is to a high standard
• ensure a research programme can be conducted.

The three workstreams

1. raising awareness
2. improving quality of care and health services for people with dementia
3. set an ambitious program for development of research into dementia
4. http://davidbehan.dh.gov.uk/