Inquiry into the dementia care skills of social care staff supporting people in care homes and in their own homes

JRF and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) submitted this response to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia's Inquiry into the dementia care skills of social care staff supporting people with dementia in care homes and their own homes.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK and aims to understand the root causes of social problems, identify ways of overcoming them, and show how social needs can be met in practice.

Ths response draws on four main sources of evidence:

•  Relevant research supported by JRF (a full list of references appears at the end of the document
• The experience of JRHT as a provider of care, housing and housing-and-care, gathered through a discussion group held in York in February 2009 with care home managers, a domiciliary service manager and a specialist dementia nurse to feed into the call for evidence from the APPG on Dementia.
• A discussion group held in York in September 2008, involving around twenty care staff members of the York Dementia Learning Network (YDLN).
• A JRF-funded event with Housing 21, held in London in January 2008, on ‘Enhancing the What Works research knowledge base on dementia care and housing’.

 http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/consultation-dementia-care-APPG