HEDN Meeting 1 March 2016

‘Dementia in Wolverhampton:

Current Position Future Strategy’

JON CROCKETT CPFA, BA(Hon). Hon. D.Sc.

Visiting Professor of Health Management and Leadership University of Wolverhampton

Dementia in Wolverhampton: Current Position Future Strategy

• Wolverhampton Dementia Action Alliance

• Joint Dementia Strategy 2015-2017

• CARE in Dementia

(Centre for Applied Research and Education )

Wolverhampton Dementia Action Alliance

• improve the lives of people living with dementia and their carers.

• 3,600 people in Wolverhampton

• drive city's aim to become a Dementia Friendly Community

• Over 30 active members of DAA

• Dementia Awareness Week

• The Joint Dementia Strategy 2015-17

• Age UK

• Alzheimer’s Society

• Asda

• Beacon Centre for the Blind

• Bilston Health Centre

• Black Country Partnership for Care

• Black Country Partnership NHSFT

• BME United

• Citizens Advice Bureau

• Compton Hospice

• Costa Coffee

• Diocese of Lichfield

• Grand Theatre

• Heantun Housing

• Iceland

• Lloyds Bank

• Opticians on call

• Over 50s Forum

• Ring and Ride

• Royal Voluntary Service

• The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

• Trading Standards

• University of Wolverhampton

• West Midlands Fire Service

• West Midlands Police

• Wolverhampton C C G

• City of Wolverhampton Council

• Wolverhampton Homes

• Wolves Community Trust

• Life Direct

The Joint Dementia Strategy 2015-17

• Making Wolverhampton a Dementia Friendly City

• Developing dementia awareness programmes for all members of the community

• Reducing waiting times for assessment and diagnosis

• Providing written and verbal information

• Offering a comprehensive health and well-being assessment

• Improving access to key services

• Ensuring individuals and carers play a part in developing personalised care plans

• Improving services for people living with dementia including housing, extra care support and adaptations within the home

The Joint Dementia Strategy 2015-17

• Offering health and well-being assessments • Providing respite and short-break services • Increasing people aged 40-74 who receive NHS health

checks • Ensuring people with dementia and their carers are

involved in advanced decision making • Supporting people to plan and prepare for end of life

care, and make informed decisions about their treatment

• Improving clinical guidance • Improving access to palliative care

CARE in Dementia

Centre for Applied Research and Education in Dementia

• Client and Carer Engagement

• Service Evaluation and Innovation

• Research

• Bespoke Training and Education

• Contribution to Partnership Initiatives

CARE in Dementia Strategy

• Continuing Professional Development

• Enterprise

• Research

Continuing Professional Development Aim: To provide and promote dementia specific courses and programmes within

the university for people with dementia, carers and the workforce.

Objectives: • Identify and promote dementia education across specific

programmes and courses • Collaborate with course and module leaders to determine where

dementia education/training sits within their courses. • Increase the number of modules with dementia content • Design and facilitate the delivery of dementia education/training to

meet the requirements of national dementia competency frameworks.

• Collaborate with research colleagues to ensure new evidence is embedded into programmes and the transfer of knowledge is evident in course

Enterprise Aim : To be aspirational providers of specialist dementia education and training programmes.

Objectives: • Collaborate with internal and external partners to determine

organisational need.

• Design and tailor bespoke training packages to meet partner organisational needs that comply with the national dementia competency frameworks.

• Facilitate the accreditation of Dementia Specific Modules and Courses provided both internally and externally by and with our partner organisations.

• Evaluate and impact study training delivered both internally and externally.

Research Aim: To promote high quality evidence based and valuable Research in Dementia

Objectives: • Collaborate with cross-Faculty and external partners to

develop high quality and evidence-based dementia research proposals.

• Improve networking opportunities to connect researchers with joint interests in dementia research.

• Work to identify funding sources and topic-specific calls for applications.

• Document the impact of dementia research and maintain a portfolio of projects and outputs across the University.

• Build income for reinvestment in dementia research including building capacity and research support.

FURTHER INFORMATION: Joint Dementia Strategy: wolverhampton.gov.uk/dementia Dementia Action Alliance: http://www.dementiaaction.org.uk/local_alliances/496_wolverhampton_dementia_action_alliance CARE in Dementia: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-institutes-and-centres/centre-for-health-and-social-care-improvement-chsci/care---centre-for-applied-research-and-education-/