Regional Summit

The first East Midlands regional summit took place on 1 October 2009. A range of stakeholders, from health, social care, private and voluntary sector and people living with dementia and their carers, worked together to develop a vision for change, based on what people living with dementia and their carers want.

A follow up summit took place on 30 September 2010, which engaged a wider audience. This summit focused on taking forward a range of priorities:

• Developing memory services
• Improving care in acute hospitals
• Reducing the use of anti-psychotic medication
• Improving care in care homes

Stakeholders produced standards that they would want to see across the region in the priority areas, which were developed in to a Dementia Charter for the East Midlands and is available below.

More information from both summits can be found in the reports below. The Appreciative Inquiry outlines the methodology.

• Regional Summit Reports
• Appreciative Inquiry - an asset approach
• Dementia Charter for the East Midlands