To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to support people with dementia and ensure they have access to care throughout the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered on
12 March 2021
We have commissioned research through the National Institute for Health Research on how to manage or mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on people with dementia and their carers living in the community. Concise advice based on this research for people with dementia and their carers is available at the following link:
http://www.idealproject.org.uk/covid/
Guidance for care homes and for carers on how best to support people living with dementia during the pandemic as well as wider advice for unpaid carers has also been made available. In addition, NHS England and NHS Improvement have issued guidance to the health service on the adjustments that are needed across the Well Dementia Pathway. This is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/dementia-wellbeing-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Later this year, we plan to bring forward proposals for a new dementia strategy to set out how we will continue to support people living with dementia and their unpaid carers in England for future years.