Good care during the Covid-19 CASCADE: presentation CARE4 conference
Year of publication
2022
Author(s)
Lois van der Molen
Olaf Timmermans
Nicolette de Klerk-Jolink
Iris van de Velde
Summary
In the Cascade (Community Areas of Sustainable Care And Dementia Excellence in Europe) project, the HZ University of Applied Sciences' Healthy Region lectorate is working with partners from Belgium, France and the United Kingdom on an innovative and cost-efficient care model for people with dementia and their informal carers. The aim is to develop, test & embed a model of care for people living with dementia that;
• Is financially sustainable
• Keeps people living in their own homes for longer
• Decreases demand on hospital beds
• Increases the number of trained staff & carers
• Provides greater wellbeing for service users, staff & the wider community
• Partners involved from the UK, BE, FR, and the NL