Issue - meetings

The Board received a report from the Strategic Director – People, and accompanying presentation, which provided an awareness of dementia and its impact on people’s lives and the provision provided by the Alzheimer’s Society in Halton. 

It was reported that people in Halton with a diagnosis of dementia were supported by the Post Diagnosis Dementia Community Pathway; the key features of the pathway were discussed in the report.

The Board was advised that the Alzheimer’s Society was the UK’s leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers.  In Halton, the Alzheimer’s Society provided a comprehensive dementia support service for patients who were referred into the service by Memory Assessment Centres and other referral routes.  The costs associated with dementia care were outlined in the presentation together with the Society’s new strategy, the New Deal on Dementia. 

As the representatives from the Alzheimer’s Society were unfortunately unable to attend the Board meeting, Officers would investigate queries made by Members in relation to: the difficulties people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s experienced in getting medication for the illness; details requested on the numbers of paid staff and volunteers involved in the delivery of the Halton post diagnostic community pathway; and the times from referral to diagnosis of dementia.

RESOLVED:  That the report and presentation be noted.