Key Drivers
The Scottish National Dementia Strategy 2023 – ‘Dementia in Scotland: Everyone’s Story’ focusses on the importance of learning from lived experience of dementia with the core principle of promoting a vision that will allow people with dementia to live life well.
The 10 Dementia Care Actions in Hospital (Appendix 1) remains a focussed framework for coordinating and maintaining improvements in Acute Care, referenced in Promoting Excellence 2021 – A Framework for Health and Social Services Staff Working with People with Dementia, Their Families and Carers. These actions were originally developed in line with the Standards of Care for Dementia (2011).
This strategy includes our Board response on how we will implement each of these actions to support improving care for people with dementia who use our services.
This plan supports the implementation of the 10 Dementia Care Acute in Hospital to ensure the current system of hospital care is improving the capability and capacity of staff working in such settings.
Key responsibility for implementation of the National Standards are with:
- Anne Marie Cavanagh, Executive Nurse Director/Board Executive Lead and
- Con Gillespie, Lead Nurse for Dementia/Board Operational Lead
