Individual research recommendation details

Recommendation ID

NG74/4

Question

Dementia care:- How effective and cost effective is intermediate care including reablement for supporting people living with dementia?

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Why this is important:- Some intermediate care and reablement services support people living with dementia. However, others specifically exclude people with a dementia diagnosis, because they are perceived as being unlikely to benefit. There is limited evidence on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of using
intermediate care and reablement to support people with dementia.
There is no evidence on the views and experiences of people living with dementia, their family and carers, or health, social care and housing practitioners, in relation to the support they receive from intermediate care and reablement services.
Comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness studies are needed to evaluate the different approaches to delivering support to people with dementia. This will help to ensure that both a person's specialist dementia needs and their intermediate care and reablement needs are accommodated in the most effective way. The studies should include a comparison of care provided by a specialist dementia team with that provided by a generalist team; and access versus no access to memory services. These need to be supplemented with qualitative studies that report the views and experiences of people living with dementia, their family and carers, and practitioners.

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance

Intermediate care including reablement

Number

NG74

Date issued

September 2017

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