Practice, care and support for people with dementia has been transformed because of the influence, evidence and learning from the programmes supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies.This has been achieved largely by supporting the provision of community-based, personalised, care services that respond directly to individualised-care needs, as articulated by people with dementia and their carers.
What Atlantic’s investment has shown more than anything, and what is now accepted in Ireland, is that people with dementia must be at the centre of decision-making with regard to their own care, from diagnosis to end-of-life.
“(Before) What I saw every day was that people with dementia were just let down by the system, they didn’t fit, they were forced into an acute care system that was just counter to everything that they wanted”
Kate Irving, Dementia Elevator Training Programme, DCU
