A National Survey Exploring Dementia Care Provision in Social Care in England

Dementia care provision in England’s care homes and home care agencies is shaped by workforce training gaps and rising complexity, with about one third of home care clients and most residents showing significant cognitive impairment.

• Why it matters: Dementia drives substantial social care demand, but evidence is limited on how providers adapt to policy goals for more community-based care and what barriers they face.
• What they did: A mixed methods, co-designed survey of managers from 42 home care agencies and 47 care home managers across five English regions used descriptive analysis and qualitative content analysis of training, integration, and challenges.
• The result: Most care homes held multidisciplinary meetings (29/40, 72.5%), organisations reported unmet training needs, and common challenges included recruitment, retention, financial constraints, and care breakdown linked to family partnership difficulties.

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