Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families
Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families through a community-based resource centre offering adult learning and social engagement along with preventative health and therapy when they need it, day or night.
Workstream
SBRI
Lead Organisation
Dementia Compass Ltd
Location
East of England
Theme
Living well with Cognitive Impairment, Managing Complaints of Ageing
About the project
Dementia Compass is a social venture that has worked for the past decade providing resources to support people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families.
Dementia Compass are proposing developing a community-based resource centre. This is not a ‘medical’ facility. It is more like a members’ gym or a hotel, where PLWCI and their families can access adult learning and social engagement along with preventative health and therapy when they need it, day or night. And, like a gym, it will be paid for by a monthly subscription that is far lower than the costs of part-time and full-time care (at present, full-time residential care costs around £44,000 each year).
Part of this project will be working with people living with cognitive issues, their families, health professionals, researchers and leaders in allied fields.