To develop a financially sustainable approach to elderly/dementia care (EDC) that can be replicated across the 2Seas area & potentially further across Europe. Uniquely this will be tested via existing state owned buildings. The facilities created will provide short term respite & longer term care & will fully engage with the local community. They will also be the basis for a cascade of shared learning & cross border excellence in dementia care for the future. The approach will have wide applicability & play a significant role in addressing the increasing demand. The outcome will be a step change improvement in EDC in the 2Seas area allowing PLWD to stay in their homes for as long as possible. CASCADE will recognise that dementia is  long term and that a person's needs on day one of diagnosis will be very different to their needs 20 years later and it will create a model that provides appropriate care at every point on the continuum.

A new holistic model of care for PLWD and the elderly in local communities encompassing respite, rehabilitation  & residential care. This model will be  financially sustainable, relevant to both public and private settings and freely available.
A cross border centre of EDC excellence through telemedicine to promote virtual consultation/learning/research/innovation
50 new beds across two countries for the elderly and PLWD (40 in the UK - PP2 = 30 at Centre of Excellence; PP3 = 10 at Guesthouse for Dementia -please see WP4 infrastructure; 10 in BE - 5 at PP6 & 5 at PP8 - please note the BE PPs are not applying for infrastructure ERDF but will fund this themselves)
New multi-lingual learning package providing training for all people having contact with people living with dementia
Internationally peer reviewed evidence base, showing the cost saving of this new way of working leading to project roll out across 2Seas area & further

PP5 have trialled a small scale 'guesthouses with care' model, having established market need. Guesthouses with care provide short-term care for the elderly in a hotel-type setting  as a step-up to or step-down from hospital stays. CASCADE will evaluate  this model. Currently there is only anecdotal evidence showing high patient satisfaction with 85-90% occupancy rate. Other service providers want to roll this model out. PP7 have specific dementia expertise eg training for wider stakeholders to enhance the quality of dementia care. CASCADE will combine & scale up these pockets of excellence to create new methods of service delivery for the provision of EDC to support people to live well in therapeutic communities rather than hospitals.

NOTE*****For a full glossary of terminology and explanation of the CASCADE model in detail please go to  http://wp.me/P7jo40-sw *****NOTE