164 people who live in Holyhead shared their thoughts with us about good dementia care, community, and the support and help that people living with dementia need.
Lead Organisation: North Wales Regional Partnership Board
164 people who live in Holyhead shared their thoughts with us about good dementia care, community, and the support and help that people living with dementia need. This is what they told us.
What good dementia care looks like.
- People are treated with compassion, understanding, and patience.
- Care is person-centred and based around what matters to the individual.
- People can make their own choices and decisions about their care.
- Unpaid carers, families, and friends are supported too and have opportunities for breaks from caring.
- Care and support in the right place and as close to home as possible.
- Care and support at the right time.
- Access to information and advice.
- Care is available through the Welsh language.
- Plenty of groups and activities for people to choose from.
- Communities are dementia friendly, inclusive, and accessible.
- People have the practical support they need.
- People have access to good healthcare.
- Care should be adequately funded.
- Care workers should be paid well and have good training.
- Services work together to provide integrated care that meets people’s needs.
What should be available for people living with dementia.
The kind of care described above, including access to a wide range of activities to suit the individual; access to care and support; practical and financial support and help with benefits; transport; wider health care needs; information and advice; support for unpaid carers; and training and increased awareness.
What community means to you.
What are the things that will help people living with dementia?
- Having the care and support they need.
- Access to good healthcare.
- Support for unpaid carers.
- Local groups and community support.
- Transport.
- Creating a dementia friendly community.
- Accessible services and environments.
- Making help easier to access.
- Financial help and funding.
- Technology and other aids.
Date completed
January 2024