Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. John P. Kotter I believe two critical errors were made in the leadership of the current English dementia strategy from the current Government. Firstly, a culture reigned of wanting to produce high volume low quality dementia diagnoses at any cost, even […]
When I wrote my highly successful book, “Living well with dementia”, using the phrase deliberately from the 2009 English dementia strategy document for England, I never knew the phrase was being bastardised so much for often very trivial initiatives in dementia. On the other hand, I had huge delight in seeing its immediate relevance to […]
Access to any sort of dementia service has become the focus of scrutiny in the English dementia strategy. For example, NHS Bristol and Bristol City Council Health and Social Care have produced a strategy document entitled ‘Living well with dementia in Bristol’ to run 2011-2015. They helpfully provide the following table on page 32. There […]
Living better with dementia 