Kate Gridley and colleagues report on their evaluation of The Good Life course, designed with people with dementia for people with dementia. They describe many positive outcomes and give recommendations for future courses of this kind. Kate Gridley on behalf of the Good Life with Dementia research team: Rachel Mann, Laura Tucker, Beth Casey, Mark...
Cook R (2023) Dementia – Post Diagnostic Support, early evaluation. Journal of Dementia Care 31(4) 19-21. Patchy post-diagnostic support can lead to feelings of abandonment among people newly diagnosed with dementia. Ruth Cook reports on a new multi-agency post-diagnostic support service designed to help people adjust to their diagnosis. In recent years the need for...
Empowering engagement with people with dementia and other stakeholders in developing best practice is hard to achieve. Greta Brunskill and colleagues explain how they set up a “Dementia Care Community” to inform their research to improve post-diagnostic dementia support and got positive results. Involving the public in health and social care research is widely recognised...