Articles

Dementia Governance During Change: Managing Provider Transfers, Staffing Disruption and Continuity Risks

Dementia services are most fragile during change: new staff, provider transfers, hospital discharge pressures, and shifting risk profiles. This article explains how to govern dementia care during disruption, including continuity...

Dementia Quality Governance: Audit Cycles That Actually Improve Care (Not Just Paperwork)

Dementia governance fails when audits become tick-box exercises that don’t change day-to-day support. This article sets out an audit and assurance approach that improves real care quality, including what to...

CQC-Ready Dementia Governance: What Inspectors Look For and How to Evidence It

CQC judgement in dementia services depends on whether governance is active, outcomes-focused and connected to real practice. This article explains how to build CQC-ready dementia governance, including audit cycles, supervision,...

Dementia Safeguarding and Governance: Turning Concerns Into Controlled Risk

Safeguarding in dementia services is often complicated by fluctuating capacity, communication barriers and high vulnerability to exploitation. This article explains how to run dementia safeguarding with strong governance, including thresholds,...

Managing Risk in Dementia Services Without Over-Restricting People

Dementia services must balance safety with autonomy as cognition changes. This article sets out how to manage everyday risk proportionately, including wandering, falls, medication and self-neglect, while evidencing least restrictive...

Audit-Ready Dementia Care: Building Evidence That Quality Is Real

Dementia care quality must be visible in records, routines and decisions, not just policy. This article explains how to build audit-ready evidence in dementia services, including what to record, how...

Life History Work in Dementia Care: Turning Knowledge Into Daily Practice

Life history work is often gathered but rarely used well. This article explains how dementia services can translate life history information into meaningful daily support, reduce distress, and evidence person-centred...

Co-Producing Dementia Support Plans With People and Families

Co-production in dementia planning goes beyond consultation. This article explains how to involve people with dementia and families meaningfully in support planning, how roles change over time, and how services...

Strengths-Based Dementia Planning: Supporting Ability, Not Just Managing Decline

Strengths-based planning in dementia services is often misunderstood as being “overly optimistic” or unrealistic. This article explains how to identify retained abilities, embed them into daily support, manage risk proportionately,...

Person-Centred Planning in Dementia Services: Turning “What Matters” Into Daily Practice

Person-centred planning in dementia services fails when it stays as paperwork instead of guiding day-to-day decisions. This article shows how to translate “what matters” into routines, communication approaches, risk enablement...