Health and social work services

Tender description

The aim of the service is to offer support and guidance for people with dementia to live at home independently for longer and to ensure that people are better enabled to live well with dementia through provision of meaningful support and services, in turn preventing crises, unscheduled hospital admissions and premature transition into long term residential care. The current service provides support to only those people who have a diagnosis of dementia. The service also provides support and guidance to family and carers of people with dementia so that they can support the person with dementia to continue in their caring role and maintain their own health and wellbeing. The aim of the service is to offer support and guidance for people with dementia to live at home independently for longer and to ensure that people are better enabled to live well with dementia through provision of meaningful support and services, in turn preventing crises, unscheduled hospital admissions and premature transition into long term residential care. The current service provides support to only those people who have a diagnosis of dementia. The service also provides support and guidance to family and carers of people with dementia so that they can support the person with dementia to continue in their caring role and maintain their own health and wellbeing.