The Future Dementia Workforce

Welcome to The future dementia workforce

Close to one million people currently live with dementia in the UK and this figure is estimated to rise to 1.4 million by 2040. With increasing demands on the health and social care workforce we need to ensure that all those working in these sectors have high quality training and all those affected by dementia and their families receive high quality care.

Join us and an expert panel, chaired by Professor Yvonne Birks, to discuss how dementia training and education can best be delivered across health and social care sectors in the coming years, and to consider how policy could be developed to increase the quality of training provided in these sectors.

Panel members include:

• Dr Zena Aldridge, Regional Clinical Lead for Dementia, NHS England
• Prof Sube Banerjee, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Professor of Dementia, University of Nottingham
• Sarah Gribbin, Head of Learning and Development, Home Instead.
• Mark Macdonald, Associate Director of Advocacy and System Change, Alzheimer’s Society
• Dr Mohammed Akhlak Rauf, Founder and Director of Meri Yaadain

The panel will discuss:

• How do we support skills in the health and social care workforce, to enable the best care for those with dementia and their carers
• How do we prepare for a Government National Care Service
• How are skills developed, supervised and maintained effectively
• What are effective ways to translate research evidence into practice

There will be an opportunity for attendees to comment or raise questions and discussions can continue afterwards over tea and coffee.

This free in-person event is co-organised by the NIHR Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy Research Unit based at Queen Mary University of London, The Curiosity Partnership and the School for Social Care Research at the University of York.

We develop and conduct research covering a disease’s journey from prevention through to the end of life. Our work informs government policy to ultimately improve the lives of those affected now and in the future. We work together with those with lived experiences of all types of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases, their family carers and charities who share their expertise with leading researchers and clinicians in health and social care.

We cover all dementias and work across neurodegenerative conditions. This includes Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s and Motor neurone disease (MND).

The Curiosity Partnership is a four-year research project, funded by a £1.3 million investment from the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), which aims to build research capacity and - as the name suggests - curiosity within local authorities. The work is co-produced between Yorkshire and Humber academics and practitioners and the local community. Specifically, the project focuses on adult social care and how research can play a role in improving the delivery of care for older people.

The School for Social Care Research (SSCR) is the national centre for adult social care research in England. Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), its internationally-leading research aims to work with practice, partners and the public to identify how best to deliver affordable, high quality and sustainable social care that meets the needs of a diverse and ageing population. Ensuring adult social care is effective and fit-for-purpose is an urgent and complex challenge which impacts us all. The NIHR SSCR’s research aims to improve the evidence base in adult social care in its widest sense by generating new knowledge that will ultimately result in better quality of life for people delivering and receiving social care.

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