Our paper demonstrates how young people with dementia can work with local charities to co-design new approaches to dementia care in their community. Ideas around co-design and co-production are not new, but they seem to receive increasing attention across health and social care. This is supported by institutions such as the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and the Collaboration of Leadership in Allied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). More evidence of co-produced services needs to be generated, and findings need to be implemented more widely to support social care and third sector organisations to plan and deliver care that meets a felt need and that is locally sustainable. We gratefully acknowledge the funding received for this study from the NIHR CLAHRC East of England and co-funding from the NIHR CLAHRCYorkshire and Humber This paper can be accessed via https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218793463.
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