South Aberdeenshire Dementia Service Redesign - Update

Updates from our recent engagement phase in October and November 2024 will be provided on this page in due course. Please read the background to the work below.

Background

We asked South Aberdeenshire residents and Health and Social Care staff to help us design the future of dementia assessment services in South Aberdeenshire. We wanted to hear from people who:

• Have experience of living with dementia or caring for someone that does
• Have experience of working with people with dementia

Following the closure of our dementia assessment ward, Scolty, at Glen O’ Dee Hospital, we want to work with our communities to assist us to redesign a service that serves the large, rural area of South Aberdeenshire and that will be sustainable for the future. Our engagement also builds on feedback we received last year across Aberdeenshire on dementia services and older adult community mental health services.

Surveys for the Community and Staff were available but closed on 18th November 2024.

We have also undertaken some face-to-face engagement with people with lived experience, and also with Health and Social Care staff.

A paper copy version of the community survey is available here.