The final report for the Cognitive Decline Health Care (CDPC) project, “Understanding the Journey Better: an investigation of the current ‘state of play’ of the health care journey experienced by people living with cognitive decline and their carers”, proposes a dementia wellness plan to enable consumers to live as well and independently as possible, and to be able to make choices.
Importantly, the project used the consumer’s voice to map and model the data, said lead investigator Professor Anneke Fitzgerald from the Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University.
“The outcomes of this project provide vital real-life data on how the journey is experienced at present – the current state – and how consumers would like to experience it – the future or ideal state,” she said.
The final report’s main recommendation includes the development of a consumer-centred dementia wellness program, which allows consumers and cares to receive information on care and