The overall aim of Dementia Choices is to explore, support and promote different forms of self-directed support, including direct payments, individual budgets and personal budgets for people living with dementia and their carers.

Groups, organisations and partnerships are invited to express their interest in becoming a pilot site with the project. Further information can be found on the Mental Health Foundation website. This includes:

Project summary
Expression of Interest (EOI) form for groups, organisations and partnerships who would like to apply to become a pilot site with Dementia Choices
Evaluation framework (detailing all the aims, outcomes, objectives and outputs for this work)

The documents are all available from the Dementia Choices web page using the following link:
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/older-people/dementia-choices/

Project Lead for Dementia Choices is Toby Williamson (Head of Development) and Neil Mapes is Project Consultant with particular responsibility for the pilot site activity. The project is receiving support and advice from a reference group made up of key individuals with expertise and experience in the field, including people with dementia and family carers.

EOI applications are welcome until the deadline of September 7th. Should you wish to discuss any of this work please email Neil Mapes in the first instance nmapes@mhf.org.uk