Agencia training helps keep people with dementia at home

Keeping older people in their own homes for as long as possible is the cornerstone of government policy.  The Alzheimer’s Society has called on health and social care commissioners to think in the longer term and invest in proper dementia services and training to keep more people out of hospital and residential care homes, saving the NHS and local authorities considerable sums.

Agencia has been working with the Department of Health and the North East Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (NEIEP) to train the 12 local authorities and PCTs in the North East.  This involved developing a training guide that assists implementation of objective 6 of the National Dementia Strategy as community and personal support services are developed.  Designed for frontline professional staff working with people with dementia, this online, interactive and innovative training guide introduces community and personal support services in a simple and user-friendly way.

Download our training guide now and find out:

• An explanation of personalisation; what personalised care is and how to make personalised care a reality; personal budgets and direct payments; and how they are accessed and allocated;
• The different kinds of community personal support services for people with dementia; what good services look like; specific examples and how to access them;
• What it is like to work in community and personal support services; the challenges and benefits and the skills that you will need;
• What it is like to experience community and personal support services;
• Where you can find out more about community and personal support services.

Find out more about community and personal support services by downloading our training guide here.

This guide can be read on screen or its pages can be printed if you prefer a hard copy.

Links and references within the guide lead to further sources of research and information that might be useful.