This document is the Development Plan for Rose Lodge for FY 2011/12 (April 2001 to March 2002). This is the first draft, to be discussed with staff, residents, and relatives during February and March 2011.

Our previous development plan covered the calendar year of 2010, and so this plan also covers the period of Jan 2011 to March 2011.

Two opposing trends are emerging in dementia care:

On the one hand, public funding of dementia care is severely constrained, with a minimal fee uplift in 2009, and no uplift in 2010. We do not know what the uplift will be in 2011, but we will not be surprised if there is none, against a backdrop of rising cost inflation. This trend is driving dementia care to a low-cost low-care model in what can only be described as ‘care factories’, oriented towards ‘economies of scale’ and ‘efficiencies’

On the other hand there is now a much greater understanding of how we can provide dementia care in a way that enables people to experience a good level of well-being. Providing this type of care does not come cheap and, being based on providing a therapeutic environment and attention to individual needs, cannot easily be scaled up without loosing the ‘economies of scale’.

As a result of these two opposing trends, many experts see dementia care provision splitting into two types. They expect to see very large ‘care factories’ (50-100 residents) providing a basic level of care for people, and offering economies of scale that allow them to be publicly funded.

Secondly there will be smaller homes (20-30) that offer a high quality of individualised care, and these homes will necessarily attract higher rates.

Please click on these links to access section in our development plan.

Progress in 2010/11

Overview of 2011/12 plan

Person-centred care

Physical environment

Social environment

Communications

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