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Together for Mental Health sets out the Welsh Government's ambitions for improving mental health and vision for improved mental health service delivery. Developed through engagement and formal consultation with key partner agencies, stakeholders, service users and carers, it covers people of all ages and emphasises the need to promote better mental health and wellbeing among the whole population. It focuses on how to improve the lives of service users and their families using a recovery and enablement approach.

Jean Georges and Dianne Gove present Alzheimer Europe’s newly drafted position on the disclosure of the diagnosis to people with dementia and carers

Provides an overview of the Carers Social Action Support Fund, which is designed to help organisations develop social action projects that support unpaid family carers. This document outlines the application process, including eligibility criteria and detailed guidance on each question in the application form, and explains the process of acceptance of funding and reporting and monitoring.

Objectives: To describe the responses of family carers to the behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia.

Purpose: This study examined the decision-making capacity of persons with cognitive impairment with respect to their everyday care preferences and choices.

To help fulfil their responsibilities towards unpaid carers, service providers need some idea of the carer's situation and how many might require support. This paper argues that estimating the prevalence of unpaid care across service planning and budgeting cycles provides a better indication of the size and composition of the carer population than estimates at a point in time. The article presents prevalence rates of unpaid adult care from the British Household Panel Survey.

This paper reviews the advances in gerontechnology and describes determinants of interest levels in new technologies among older persons and their caregivers. The first section presents a literature review of new technologies. We then examine the result of two focus groups we conducted on technology, one with elderly people living in an independent living apartment building, and one with caregivers in a special care unit.

A short video aimed at patients and carers which features a number of professionals, patients and carers, who talk about how a more personalised approach to care can improve outcomes.

Aims to provide standards for long term care in South Tyneside, covering issues such as provision of information, assessment and care planning, housing, independence, health care, benefits and complaints procedures.

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