Dementia and Homecare: Driving Quality and Innovation

Published by the UK Homecare Association, this report is the output of the Health and Care Champion Sub-group on Homecare, part of the Prime Minster's Challenge on Dementia (October 2015).

• It emphasises the key role of good quality home care in supporting people with dementia to remain in their own homes and live a good quality life.
• Outlines in detail what is needed in order to achieve this objective and suggests ways of bringing it about.
• It begins with an aspirational description of how a person's experience of dementia might be if all the recommendations of the report are implemented.

Recommendations

• championing homecare as the key facilitator of dementia care and information
• delivering a personalised approach focused on outcomes for the individual and family
• giving greater flexibility for homecare providers to innovate and shape care with and for the individual
• recognising and realising the value of homecare to reduce risk and lessen the negative impact of dementia progression
• prioritising homecare as a cost effective form of intervention
• ensuring sufficient time to deliver the care people with dementia need in the way they want
• developing consistent and reliable homecare services and training
• helping providers to implement and experiment with technology
• developing research on care as well as cure.

Section Topics

• the individual
• building the case
• developing the workforce
• a personalised approach
• integration and partnership working
• and innovative commissioning.