General links for all resources
Practical dementia resources
Warning
- Guide for Providers on Personal Planning
is a PDF document to support staff in services to develop personal plans for adults. - Getting to Know Me is a downloadable PDF to support hospital staff to gain better understanding of patients with dementia. The document is designed to be completed by a person living with dementia, or a carer or relative.
- SSSC offer online dementia resources
to help health and social care professionals implement NHS Education for Scotland Promoting Excellence Framework and the Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland within their practice. - All social care staff can freely access this suite of dementia resources when they register on TURAS. These resources are provided to support the workforce to gain the knowledge and skills within the Promoting Excellence Framework to support people with dementia and their families and carers to have the best quality of life possible.
- The Herbert Protocol is an information gathering tool where key personal information is completed and maintained by unpaid carers or families for people living with dementia. It assists police, emergency and care services to work together to quickly locate missing people with dementia and return them home safely.
- The Dementia - health and social services staff: framework - Promoting Excellence 2021 is for all health and social services staff working with people living with dementia and carers.
- This 'Living well with dementia' webinar gives an oversight of the complexities that need to be considered when caring for someone with dementia before providing advice on what you need to consider to make each interaction meaningful. You also hear from a family member who describes what makes the difference in the care being provided being meaningful and hear from an inspector about how they identify good care.
- These Health and Social Care Standards set out what we should expect when using health, social care or social work services in Scotland. They seek to provide better outcomes for everyone; to ensure that individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and that the basic human rights we are all entitled to are upheld. The objectives of the Standards are to drive improvement, promote flexibility and encourage innovation in how people are cared for and supported. All services and support organisations, whether registered or not, should use the Standards as a guideline for how to achieve high quality care.
- Alliance Scotland have developed the ‘What Matters To Me’ template that you can use to gather and share the information on what is important to the individuals receiving your care and support.
- TIDE have produced this easy to use guide on Life story work. This is fundamentally about understanding what life that person has had, what their life is now and their wishes for the future.
- Workforce tips from Irene is a short video that is subtitled. The link takes you to the Scottish Government website where you can download the video.
- Social interaction is a short video that is subtitled. The link takes you to the Scottish Government website where you can download the video.
- This is a 2 minute YouTube clip where Irene talks about living with dementia and staying connected.