Adaptive Implementation and Validation of the Meeting Centres Support Programme for people with dementia and their carers in Europe

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MEETINGDEM aims to implement and evaluate an innovative and inclusive approach to supportingcommunity dwelling people with mild to moderately severe dementia and their family carers, called theMeeting Centres Support Programme (MCSP), in three EU countries: Italy, Poland and United Kingdom.This evidence-based, person-centred, approach has been positively evaluated, and implementedin 90 meeting centers in the Netherlands, and is now well-placed to be trialled and implemented inother EU countries. Demonstrated benefits include high levels of user satisfaction, reduced behaviouraland mood problems, delayed admission to residential care, lower levels of caregiving-relatedstress, higher carer competence, and improved collaboration between care and welfare organizations.Project partners in the three countries will utilise strategies and tools developed in the Netherlandsand adapt them to country-specific requirements, establish a group of appropriate organizationalcollaborators in each country, develop an implementation plan and toolkit, implement MCSP, and evaluatethe programme in a controlled trial in terms of its impact on the behaviour, mood and quality oflife of people with dementia and carers, its cost effectiveness as a result of changes in use of other(more expensive) services, such as hospitals and residential care, and psychotropic medications. Anoverall evaluation will draw together findings from the three implementation countries to developrecommendations for successful implementation of the MCSP across the EU and beyond.The project will be carried out over a 36 month period. In Phase One (M1-18) activities will focus onestablishing an initiative group of relevant organizations and user representatives in each country,exploring pathways to care and potential facilitators and barriers to implementing the programme, anddeveloping country and context-specific implementation plans and materials. In Phase Two (M19-36)training will be provided to organizations and staff, after which the meeting centres will be establishedand evaluated for impact, cost-effectiveness, user satisfaction and implementation process