Consultancy
“The fact you are here, means you want to change, improve or ensure people living with a dementia receive the highest quality care.”
In the rapidly evolving field of dementia care, evidenced-based consultancy is not just an advantage, it is essential. Dementia presents complexities that require precision, compassion, and validated approaches to ensure the highest standards of care.
Choosing an evidenced-based dementia consultancy means embracing innovation grounded in robust research and clinical expertise. This guarantees interventions that are proven to improve outcomes, enhance communication, and support both individuals living with a dementia and their wider support networks effectively.
Innovare Dementia Consultancy champions this approach, integrating cutting-edge studies with practical application. Our services empower care providers and families alike to implement strategies that promote the autonomy, choice, and control of people living with a dementia, helping to optimise outcomes.
Investing in evidenced-based dementia consultancy is investing in certainty, credibility, and progress. It transforms uncertainty into confidence, outdated methods into best practice, and passive care into proactive, person-led support. With a growing ageing population and diagnosis of dementia rising globally, this commitment is not just prudent, it is a responsibility.
Elevate your dementia care standards today with consultancy founded on evidence, innovation, and compassion. Choose Innovare Dementia Consultancy to lead the way in transforming dementia support for tomorrow.
Person- Led Framework
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Dementia care has never lacked good intentions. Across the sector, we see committed professionals, compassionate organisations and well-meaning strategies that speak of dignity, choice and person-centred care. Yet despite this, the lived experience of people affected by a dementia too often tells a different story — one shaped by routines, risk aversion, institutional priorities and systems that struggle to adapt around the individual.
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The Innovare Person-Led Dementia Care Framework was developed in response to this gap, by David Wilson-Wynne.
It exists because language alone is no longer enough. Claiming to be person-centred or person-led does not make it so. What matters is how care is experienced — in ordinary moments, everyday decisions and the subtle dynamics of power that shape daily life.
This framework is intentionally challenging. Not because the sector needs criticism, but because it deserves honesty.
At Innovare Dementia Consultancy, we believe that dementia care must move beyond models that simply soften institutional practice. True person-led care requires a fundamental shift: from services doing things to or for people, to people actively shaping the care, environments and systems around them.
The Innovare Person-Led Dementia Care Framework does not seek perfection. Instead, it offers clarity. It creates a shared understanding of what “good” looks like, what “better” requires, and what cannot be justified simply because it is familiar or convenient.
The Innovare Person-Led Framework is intentionally whole-system in its scope. It examines culture, language, environment, leadership, workforce enablement and accountability — not as separate components, but as interconnected forces shaping daily experience.
This framework is designed to be used by a wide range of stakeholders, including:
• Care providers and senior leaders
• Quality and governance teams
• External auditors and reviewers
• Commissioners and regulators
• People living with a dementia and their families
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The Innovare Person-Led Dementia Care Framework is structured around eight interconnected domains, each representing a critical dimension of lived experience:
• Power and decision-making
• Language, culture and values
• Knowing the person
• Environment as an enabler of autonomy
• Relationships and connection
• Everyday life and meaning
• Workforce enablement
• Accountability and continuous learning
Dementia Practice & Culture Review
A fixed‑scope diagnostic for leaders who need clarity, confidence and evidence
“We think our dementia care is good, but we can’t clearly evidence it, defend it, or confidently explain it to regulators, commissioners or families.”
Who this is for?
Care homes and care groups
Housing with care / supported living
Services preparing for inspection or responding to concerns
Leaders who need an honest picture of practice, not reassurance
What’s included
Review of policies, care plans and risk documentation (language, tone, assumptions)
Observation of everyday dementia practice (what actually happens)
Culture and language assessment (spoken and written)
Leadership reflection session (strengths, risks, blind spots)
Evidence an inclusive environment
Written audit report with:
Strengths to protect
Practice risks and gaps
Clear, prioritised recommendations
How it’s delivered
Fixed timeframe (4-8 weeks)
Defined scope
Minimal disruption
Evidence‑based and values‑aligned
Outcomes leaders care about
Clear evidence of dementia practice quality
Reduced anxiety around inspection and safeguarding
Confidence in decision‑making
A credible starting point for improvement
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Dementia Care Consultancy
Innovare Dementia Consultancy: Person-led Consultancy Services
Every person living with a dementia is unique. Our consultancy puts that uniqueness at the forefront of care, designing strategies that respect identity, preserve autonomy and enhance quality of life.
Innovare Dementia Consultancy improves care with evidence-led solutions that preserve dignity, autonomy and connection. We help care homes, hospitals and local authorities not to just development strategies, but implement them.
If you require consultancy services - please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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The Importance of the environment
At Innovare Dementia Consultancy we transform spaces into person-led environments that sustain identity, boost wellbeing and operationalise the principles of best practice dementia care.
Here are some of the services we offer:
Bespoke audits
Rigorous, evidence-based assessments tailored to the unique needs, histories and cultures of the people who live and work in your setting. Our audits go beyond checklist audits — we map sensory environments, routines, social interactions and identity cues to reveal opportunities and risks that matter to lived experience.
Tailored environment redesigns
Practical, phased redesign plans that turn insight into impact. We design and deliver interventions at every scale — from micro-adaptations to personalised bedroom schematics, through to communal space layouts, wayfinding systems, lighting and sensory programming — all aligned with the identities and preferences of residents.
Evidence-led consultation
Chat with our dementia consultant to explore ways in which you can play your part in ensuring your care environment incorporates best practice ageing & dementia design. Our interventions are evidenced-based, improve engagement in everyday activities, enhance sleep patterns and support social connection — outcomes measurable via pre- and post-intervention metrics and qualitative feedback.
Person-led care embedded in environment
By aligning physical spaces with individual routines and relationships, we make person-led approaches easier to deliver and sustainable for frontline staff. The design itself becomes a care partner, prompting choice, autonomy and dignity.
What makes us different
Person-first intelligence: we combine dementia-specialist knowledge with design thinking and lived-experience input to produce interventions that are both humane and practical.
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Translating research into practice
Unlock research.
At Innovare Dementia Consultancy we bridge that gap: translating rigorous research into tangible, scalable outcomes that frontline services, care teams and commissioning bodies can use now.
What we offer
Evidence translation strategy
We take research findings and map a clear pathway to practical implementation — identifying target settings, required adaptations, measurable outcomes and realistic timelines.
Implementation design and support
From co-designed care pathways and staff training curricula to prototype service models and digital tool deployments, we build and test practical solutions that work in real-world contexts.
Evaluation and impact measurement
Robust, pragmatic evaluation frameworks that demonstrate clinical benefit, cost-effectiveness and quality-of-life outcomes for people living with a dementia and their support networks.
Policy and commissioning readiness
Briefings, business cases and cost-modelling designed to secure buy-in from health and social care commissioners and to support sustainable scaling.
Scalable, evaluated solutions unlock investment and spread best practice across systems.
How we work
Rapid evidence synthesis: We extract actionable elements from complex studies and present them in jargon-free, practice-ready formats.
Co-design with stakeholders: Clinicians, carers and people living with a dementia shape every stage to ensure feasibility and acceptability.
Continuous learning: Data-driven feedback loops ensure ongoing improvement and sustained impact.