SW Dementia Summit April 2010

Challenges for partnerships: making it work

for people with dementia
Sally Slade
Managing Director
Health and Social Care Delivery, Devon

Jenny Richards
Joint Strategic Commissioning manager
OPMH, Devon
Effective Partnerships:
Context

• POPP programme (My Life, My Choice)

• Integrated health and social care
arrangements
• Complex care teams aligned to primary
care
• CMHT/Primary care/CCT interface
Effective Partnerships:
Putting people First

• Shift to prevention and early intervention

• PPF Programme Board:
– Universal services
– Early intervention and prevention
– Choice and control
– Social capital
• Mainstream approach for all service
users / carers
Effective Partnerships:
The priorities

• Social care reablement

• Extra care and specialist housing support
• Care home externalisation – focus on
specialist care beds for people with
dementia
• Dementia action plan (joint agency)
Effective Partnerships:
Planning together

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

• Joint Commissioning Strategy
• Action Plan – SW review feedback
• Work streams
• Stakeholder engagement
• Devon Dementia Partnership Group
Effective Partnerships:
Working together

• Peer support and learning networks –

memory Cafes
• Define roles of partners
• Agree outcomes, standards and funding
• Wider engagement – embracing diversity
to reduce stigma
• Build voluntary sector capacity
Effective Partnerships:
Delivering together

• Build social capital

‘…increasing the confidence and capacity of
individuals and small groups to get involved in
activities and build mutually supportive
networks that hold communities together…
• Bonding/linking
• Increasing levels of voluntary sector
activity is a good indicator
• Over 20 organisations involved
Effective Partnerships

• Carer: “it’s especially good that other people will talk to

my husband - keeps as much normality going as
possible, people understand the difficulties and can
engage with him”
• Gentleman with dementia: “relaxed in like-minded group,
not worried about what you’re going to say”
• Carer: “meeting CPN and other staff on informal basis
regularly, don’t have to keep chasing them up if things
occur that need their help/attention”
• Lady with dementia: “wonderful. Friendly. For people
like me who’ve got something wrong with them … get
such understanding here. In a group, we’re all like
people. People like each other as they are, they don’t
worry about their problems”