Commissioning Pack resources: Care at home/ care home
Contracting
- Challis, D. et al, (2011) Community support services for people with dementia: The relative costs and benefits of specialist and generic domiciliary care services. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Manchester University, Manchester.
- Department of Health (2010) Commissioning for personalisation: a framework for local authority commissioners. London, Department of Health. This framework explores refocuses existing and emerging perspectives on commissioning for health and wellbeing through the lens of personalisation.
- Department of Health (2010) Contracting for personalised outcomes: learning from emerging practice. London, Department of Health.
Contracting for personalised outcomes draws on learning from six local authorities who have begun to reshape their contracts, processes, range of budget holding options and relationships with the provider market to ensure that personalised services are available for everyone with care and support needs.
- Department of Health (2010) Extra Care Housing and Dementia Commissioning Checklist. London, Department of Health.
This checklist is designed to help stakeholders commission Extra Care schemes which meet the needs and aspirations of people with dementia and their families.
- Department of Health (2010) Quality outcomes for people with dementia: Building on the work of the National Dementia Strategy. London, Department of Health.
This document presents the Department’s revised implementation plan for ‘Living Well with Dementia – A National Dementia Strategy’, which was published in February 2009.
- Department of Health (2009) Commissioning domiciliary care for people with dementia and their carers. London, Department of Health.
The purpose of this paper is to assist commissioners in ensuring that homecare for people with dementia is appropriate to their needs and/or the needs of their carers. London, Department of Health.
- Department of Health (2009) Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision. London, Department of Health.
- Department of Health (2009) Working together for change: using person-centred information for commissioning. London, Department of Health.
Describes a method for collating and analysing person-centred information for use in strategic commissioning.
- Dementia Services Development Centre Wales (2008) Systematic Reviews of the Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Interventions that Promote Mental Well-Being in Later Life. Banfor, Dementia Services Development Centre Wales.
This review of 21 databases and 11 websites sought evidence, published between January 1993 and February 2007, of the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote mental well-being in later life.
- South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Dementia Quality Mark. Bridgwater, South West Dementia Partnership.
The Dementia Quality Mark (DQM) aims to reassure people choosing a service that the care being given meets the needs of people with dementia. The DQM also sets standards, which those providing services can aspire to.
- South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Dementia Quality Mark – Quality assurance tools. Bridgwater, South West Dementia Partnership.
These tools are based on person centred theories and the observationa
- South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Improving care in care homes in the South West – Self assessment tool for commissioners.
This self assessment tool will help commisssioners to reflect on what they should or could do to improve care for people with dementia.
- South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Dementia Quality Mark – Quality assurance tools. Bridgwater, South West Dementia Partnership.
These tools are based on person centred theories and the observational methodologies developed from them.
South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Improving care in care homes in the South West – Self assessment tool for commissioners
This self assessment tool will help commisssioners to reflect on what they should or could do to improve care for people with dementia.
Education and training
End of life care
Living at home
Person centred care
- Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides (2008) Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care – A Guide to Good Practice. Bradford, Bradford Dementia.
This practical guide is designed to give those who care for people with dementia a clear sense of how reminiscence can be used to greatly improve their quality of life.
- Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Torbay Care Trust (2009) Helpful Activity in Alzheimers Disease and Dementia. Devon, Devon Partnership NHS Trust.
This short film offers some suggestions about how activity may help someone with dementia.
- Kitwood, T. (1997) Dementia reconsidered: the person comes first. Buckingham, Open University Press.
- May, D. et al (2009) Enriched care planning for people with dementia. London, Jessica Kingsley Publications.
- Royal College of Nursing (2010) Living well with dementia in a care home. London, Royal College of Nursing.
This guide highlights key issues from the National Dementia Strategy for care homes and implications for providers and managers of care home services. Information is drawn from the strategy document and page numbers are referenced.
- Shirley, L. (2008) Developing new service provision for challenging behaviour in older people’s care settings. PSIGE newsletter 105, 28-53.
- South West Dementia Partnership (2010) Person centred support plan for people with dementia. Bridgwater, South West Dementia Partnership.
The person centred support plan aims to enable and support the person living with dementia in a care home to be as self-reliant and in control as they can be.
Research
