Putting care right - campaign overview

Alzheimer's Society's Putting Care Right campaign aims to improve the quality of care  that people with dementia receive in hospitals, in care homes and at home.

Dementia is a major issue facing health and social care providers. Many people are not receiving the quality of care they deserve.

• Two thirds of people living with dementia live in the community and a third in care homes
• A quarter of people on hospital wards have dementia

What is Alzheimer's Society doing?

Alzheimer's Society campaigns to improve the quality of care for people with dementia by:

• Providing evidence on the current state of dementia care
• Influencing the people who can make a difference
• Creating tools that can help people with dementia and their families.

Care in care homes

• Our Home from Home report presents new statistics and findings into the quality of dementia care in care homes
• We produced a guide for people who are choosing a care home

Care in hospital

• Our report Counting the cost of dementia: caring for people with dementia on hospital wards revealed a huge variation in the quality of care people receive while on a general ward
• It also highlighted the impact of poor care on peoples' lives, and the cost to the NHS
• We produced This is me, a tool to help people with dementia and their families while they are in hospital

Care at home

• Our report Support. Stay. Save. Care and support of people with dementia in their own homes found that people with with dementia and their families want to remain living at home, but are not receiving sufficient support to do this

More information

Our campaigners use these reports to influence key decision makers up and down the country. Find out more about our campaigns or contact us at campaignersnetwork@alzheimers.org.uk