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Living Well With Dementia: A national dementia strategy

Setting out a vision to transform dementia services.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 25 July 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Living well with dementia: a national dementia strategy was published in February 2009. It set out a vision for transforming dementia services with the aim of achieving better awareness of dementia, early diagnosis and high quality treatment at whatever stage of the illness and in whatever setting.

The strategy was followed by the publication of a report addressing the over-prescription of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia. Implementation of the 11 recommendations contained within that report is an integral part of improving the care and experience of people with dementia and their carers.

Supporting documents

• Equalities action plan (July 2011)
• Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy - good practice compendium (January 2011)
• Quality outcomes for people with dementia: Building on the work of the national dementia strategy (September 2010)
• Report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia (November 2009)

Published 25 July 2011