Improving the quality of dementia care will not lower prevalence, however, it may reduce the risk of complications/ future events; improve quality of life for the patient and their carers/ families; reduce inequity in health outcomes; or reduce (or increase) health and social care utilisation and costs.
Welsh Government Reading Well Books on Prescription for Dementia will provide support and information to people living with dementia and their relatives / carers. Welsh Health Circular [WHC/2018/031].
Reading Well Books on Prescription for dementia, available from local libraries and endorsed by Welsh Government (WHC/2018/031), provide information and advice for people living with dementia, support for living well, advice for relatives and carers, as well as fiction, memoir and photographic books used in reminiscence therapy.
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care (The Lancet Commissions 2020;396(10248);413-446) makes recommendations on care for those with dementia, including provision of holistic post-diagnostic care, managing neuropsychiatric symptoms, and care for family carers.
For signposting to relevant NICE guidelines/ quality standards relating to management of dementia as a source of potential improvement actions, see below.