Analysis of Dementia Community Support Services in Wiltshire
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Healthwatch Wiltshire worked with Alzheimer's Support, a charity that provides a range of services to people living with dementia, to map and evaluate dementia community services across the county.
The dementia engagement that they carried out includes:
- Over 1200 conversations about dementia
- 39 visits to community groups
- 10 visits to services for people living with dementia
- 6 dementia workshops or events
- 250 conversations with people living with dementia
- 310 conversations with carers of people living with dementia
- 11 one-to-one detailed interviews
People feel that specialist dementia community services are good quality and value them. These groups are the most popular and well attended by people living with dementia and their carers. People have told us that they feel these groups have lasting positive effects to their well-being and day to day lives. The provision and variety of such groups is not evenly spread across Wiltshire.
The report contains 15 recommendations about encouraging dementia support groups in parts of the county that are currently poorly served, promoting other types of support group, and improving information provision