This September marks the eleventh edition of the increasingly growing global awareness campaign, World Alzheimer’s Month. Every year, people from around the world come together to cast a spotlight on dementia and challenge the stigma attached to the condition.
According to the National Health Service, it is estimated that around 676,000 people in England are affected by dementia. Across the UK, the number is estimated to be about 850,000, and predicted to rise exponentially to 1.6 million by 2024.
With approximately 70 per cent of care home residents living with dementia, care providers are continuously searching for new ways to streamline processes and improve quality of care, reducing workloads, giving carers more time to spend with their residents and delivering better overall outcomes.
In 2014, NHS England published its Five Year Forward View strategy, which outlined a vision to transform the NHS and for social care in England to become more integrated...