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| Helping dementia patients with a wider family circle | | Author(s) | Natalie Valios |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1842, 4 November 2010 |
| Pages | pp 26-27 |
| Source | www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Annotation | Shared Lives schemes (formerly known as adult placements) have tended to be pigeonholed as a learning disability service but a growing number are beginning to support people with dementia and they are proving cheaper than alternative forms of help. A scheme that many could learn from is one of the longest running, the Time to Share scheme set up 15 years ago under Falkirk Council's Joint Dementia Initiative, a multi-agency scheme to improve the independence and well-being of people with memory problems. Time to Share provides short breaks for people with dementia in the homes of Shared Lives carers. This article focuses on this scheme and how it operates. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101111203 A |
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