Resources
Personalised care has the potential to transform the way people think, talk and respond to dementia. Here we’ve gathered together some key resources for delivering it.
Making It Real
Making It Real is a framework to support good personalised care and support for providers, commissioners and people who access services; including for people living with dementia.
Place, People, Purpose and Power
This paper, commissioned by DCAN and written by Neil Crowther, discusses personalised care and support for people with dementia, tracing work done to date and where we need to go next.
NHS Long Term Plan
Personalised care has the potential to transform the way people think, talk and respond to dementia. Here we’ve gathered together some key resources for delivering it.
NHS Universal Personalised Care
NHS plans for implementing the six components of the comprehensive model for personalised care.
Supported self-management Summary Guide
Supported self-management is part of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system. This summary guide is aimed at people and organisations leading local implementation of supported self-management. The guide provides best practice advice, not statutory guidance.
Social prescribing and community-based support Summary guide (Updated June 2020)
The Social Prescribing Summary Guide is intended for people and organisations leading local implementation of social prescribing.
NHS England Dementia: Good Personalised Care and Support Planning
This guide is aimed at primary care and commissioners, particularly GPs, who provide care plan reviews. It is designed to help improve care planning in dementia by supporting a standardised approach, highlighting good practice, ensuring alignment with relevant cross condition care plans and help to reduce local variation in the process.
Enhanced Health in Care Homes Guide
The Enhanced Health in Care Homes programme provides a framework for delivering healthcare through the support of a multi-disciplinary team including primary care, specialists, community-based care services and care home staff.
The Care Provider Alliance has produced a guide to the programme, which can now be viewed on The Care Provider Alliance website.
Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building activity: Report
This C4PC resource explores a place-based approach in York and Wakefield and examines how best to align link worker and capacity building activities with optimum success.
Good Health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing Playbook
The Playbook showcases best practices in social prescribing, and highlights shared learning that can support health systems around the world to navigate good health and wellbeing during and after the pandemic.
Living well while waiting for a memory assessment: printable guide
This guide from the Next Steps website contains information and advice on staying well while waiting for a memory assessment, as well as a range of exercises you can complete to help you decide on what’s right for you.