Practical dementia resources improvement project

The Care Inspectorate is engaging with frontline staff who provide care to people with dementia and care partners, to participate in the co-design of new dementia resources. 

The project is to develop easily accessible and understood resources to support the frontline social care workforce in their caring role for people living with dementia, who may be experiencing stress and distress, and their families.

The resources will support improvements in person-centred care to reduce stress and distress for people through appropriate assessment, care planning and meaningful connections and activity.

Initially a survey was widely distributed to frontline social care staff, followed by several stakeholder workshop events with the aim of co-designing practical tools and resources to support frontline social care staff in their work. During these workshops, we explored what resources participants felt would make a difference and why.

Click here to see our progress to date and how we plan to progress.

We are gathering stories of what frontline staff and care partners have done differently that has led to a better outcome for the people they care for. If you or your colleagues wish to share tips, ideas, learning experiences and stories that will help others caring for people who have dementia, to learn and understand the many ways that can reduce incidences of stress and distress. Here are the tool and guidance to use.

All stories and enquiries can be sent to us at practicaldementia@careinspectorate.gov.scot 

We can then share your stories wider for the purpose of learning from each other.

To contact us about this project email us at practicaldementia@careinspectorate.gov.scot 

We will continue to provide updates on this page as our work progresses.