Raising Dementia Awareness

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the publication of Alzheimer Scotland’s report, Delivering Integrated Dementia Care: The 8 Pillars Model of Community Support; considers that the report is the first major public health report to demonstrate the real difference that could be made to people’s lives through the integration of health and social care in Scotland; recognises that the report calls for a reform of the way in which community care services for people with dementia, their carers, partners and families are delivered; understands that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, a collective name for progressive degenerative brain syndromes that affect memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion; understands that approximately 62,000 people in Scotland have dementia, 55% of whom have Alzheimer’s disease; regrets that there is currently no cure for dementia; believes that Alzheimer Scotland’s report provides helpful guidance to those commissioning health and social care services on how the individual needs of those adapting to a diagnosis of dementia can be comprehensively met, and acknowledges that 21 September 2012 is World Alzheimer’s Day, which brings a focus to raising awareness of dementia.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 18 SNP 14 Con 2 Green 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-04227 by reference.