Dementia: Fundamentals of Care in Acute Settings (DemFoCAS)

The purpose of the project is to evaluate current care provision at ESNEFT acute hospital care settings with a focus upon fundamentals of care for patients living with dementia. The project plans to highlight areas for improvement using a service improvement design, to inform the development of dementia services and identify areas of research. The project aims to highlight areas of activities and propose changes that are relevant and achievable.

The deployed methodology is a mixed methods case study design, over two acute sites at ESNEFT, namely Colchester and Ipswich hospital. The project is informed through Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) and is informed using the Donabedian model for service improvement.

Our partners

• East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
• Age Well East North-Hill
• Age Well East Church Hall
• Clacton dementia café
• Community 360
• #Dementia Research Network
• Essex County Council
• Felixstowe and Trimley Memory Lane Dementia Support Group
• Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing
• Memory Lane Ipswich
• National Institute for Health and Care Research
• School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex
• Unity Memory Café