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Dementia: Key facts
1. 670,000 people in England with dementia - number will double
in 30 years.
2. 21m people know a close friend or family member with
dementia – that’s 42% of the population.
3. 45% of people with dementia in England receive a formal
diagnosis
4. But with early intervention, and access to the right services and
support, people with dementia can continue to live well with
the condition for many years.
5. And it is possible to reduce your risk of vascular dementia
through a healthier lifestyle.
6. Costs society £19bn a year, more than the costs of cancer,
heart disease or stroke.
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The PM Challenge on Dementia
Aim:
Build on existing work and achievements delivered via the National
Dementia Strategy (2009) and set out a renewed ambition to secure
greater improvements in dementia care and research by 2015.
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Progress to date:
Driving improvements in health and
care
• NHS England national ambition on diagnosis rates: Aim
by 2015 for two-thirds of people with dementia to have a
diagnosis, with appropriate post diagnosis support.
• Enhanced Service as part of the GP contract for 2013/14:
Rewarding practices for having a pro-active approach to
identifying the early signs of dementia.
• PHE: Dementia one of its seven high level priorities.
• Extended Dementia Commissioning for Quality and
Innovation award: For 2013/14 covers quality of dementia
care and support for carers.
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Progress to date:
Dementia Friendly Communities
• Dementia Friends: 2247 people signed up to train as
volunteer Dementia Friends Champions. Over 500 trained
with the potential to reach over 100,000 members of the
public.
• Dementia friendly places: Over 50 cities, towns and
villages already taking action to become dementia friendly,
more than doubling the original aim of 20 places by 2015.
• Dementia education pioneer programme: Work underway
in 21 schools to test different approaches to educating
children and young people about dementia.
• Nationwide awareness raising campaign: Reached out to
over 37m people (83% agreed they would encourage a
friend or relative to see their GP if they thought they had
symptoms of dementia)
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Progress to date:
Better Research
• National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funding:
£22 million available to 21 pioneering research projects to
boost dementia diagnosis rates and trial ground-breaking
treatments.
• Major investment in brain scanning: £9.6m being
provided by MRC for a pilot study involving 8,000 volunteers,
to be expanded over time to scan the brains of 100,000
Biobank participants.
• DH and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
funding: £13m for social science research proposals in
preventing dementia.
• G8 Dementia Research Summit: December 2013
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Next steps
The three Champion Groups have highlights three key areas
for their work going forward:
•Greater collaboration: Across the three Champion Groups on
shared themes and with new delivery partners to embed early
successes, continue to build momentum and sustain
improvements over the longer term.
•Reaching out further: Encouraging other and more diverse
sections of the community to play a role in the drive towards
dementia friendly communities.
•Influencing the wider system: Working with NHSE, PHE,
HEE, CQC and others to influence and support their work
programmes. Exploring the opportunity to work with a number
of exemplar Health and Wellbeing Boards and to disseminate
learning at national level.
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Examples of projects currently being
funded
• Alzheimer’s Society on local Dementia Actions Alliances
• Housing 21 – a project on housing and dementia.
• Dementia UK - Carers as Educators
• The Butterfly Scheme - developing a system of evaluation for the
scheme.
• National Development Team for Inclusion, Circles of Support for
people with dementia.
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Possible Future Work
• Post-diagnosis support
• Dementia and BME communities
• Domiciliary Care
• Improving the environment of care
• Technology
Notes de l'éditeur
The work to deliver the National Dementia Strategy, published in February 2009, has already achieved a great deal. However, the number of people with dementia is increasing and diagnosis rates are low. These issues, combined with a lack of awareness and skills needed to support people with dementia and their carers, make clear we need to do more The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia, launched on 26th March sets out renewed ambition to go further and faster, building on progress made through the National Dementia Strategy, to secure greater improvements in dementia care and research so that people with dementia, their carers and families get the services and support they need. The Challenge is an ambitious programme of work designed to make a real difference to the lives of people with dementia and their families and carers. It will increase diagnosis rates, raise awareness and understanding and double funding for research by 2015.
Since the launch of the Challenge, the Champion Groups have made significant progress across all three strands of the challenge, including: Driving improvements in health and care NHS England (NHSE) announced the first ever national ambition to improve dementia diagnosis rates, to two-thirds by 2015. There is a new Directed Enhanced Service for take up by GPs to reward practices for having a pro-active, case finding approach to the assessment of patients who may be showing the early signs of dementia. Public Health England has named dementia within one of its seven high-level priorities for 2013/14, in recognition of the key role public health can play in the delivery of better dementia care and support. Made £54m available to the NHS to support dementia diagnosis in hospital ( CQUIN ) Dementia Friendly Communities Launch of a new Dementia Friends scheme which will deliver awareness sessions to 1 million people with the aim of breaking down the barriers between people with the condition and their local communities Over 50 cities, towns and villages are taking local action to become dementia friendly more than doubling our original ambition of 20 cities, towns and villages signed up to be dementia-friendly by 2015.
Launched a dementia education pioneer programme with 21 schools across the country who are testing different approaches to educating children and young people about dementia. The findings from this pioneer group are being written up to be made available to all schools who want to participate from the forthcoming Autumn term. Launched a national advertising campaign to raise awareness and reduce the stigma attached to dementia and encourage people to contact their GP if they experience the symptoms of dementia. Better research Made £22 million available to 21 pioneering research projects to boost dementia diagnosis rates and trial ground-breaking treatments. £9.6m being provided by MRC for a pilot study involving 8,000 volunteers, to be expanded over time to scan the brains of 100,000 Biobank participants. Provision of £13m for social science research proposals in preventing dementia
In terms of next steps the three Champion Groups have highlighted three key areas for their work going forward: Greater collaboration: Across the three Champion Groups on shared themes and with new delivery partners to embed early successes, continue to build momentum and sustain improvements over the longer term. Reaching out further: Encouraging other and more diverse sections of the community to play a role in the drive towards dementia friendly communities. Influencing the wider system: Working with NHSE, PHE, HEE, CQC and others to influence and support their work programmes. Exploring the opportunity to work with a number of exemplar Health and Wellbeing Boards and to disseminate learning at national level. RESTRICTED - MANAGEMENT
