Template action plan to improve care for people with dementia in the community

This a template action plan can be used by local authorities and commissioning consortia working together under Health and Well-being Boards to improve care for those people with dementia who live in their own homes or in some other residential setting. The action plan includes: a commitment to providing leadership and resources at Board level in all participating organisations; a review of current services to identify services that could be made more dementia friendly; identification of four priorities for improved service provision for people with dementia and their carers; analysis and development of an approach to delivering training and support for people who care for people with dementia (carers, domiciliary care workers, care-home staff, etc). It is one of the resources that make up the Dementia Commissioning pack, which has been designed to help commissioners improve the quality of services and minimise unwarranted variation in service delivery.