The Butterfly Scheme | Reaching out to people with dementia and to anyone needing memory support

The Butterfly Scheme has now transferred to Dementia UK. Dementia UK will be working with users of the Scheme over the next year to help develop it further and will share updates with users on a regular basis. The Scheme will continue to operate as normal, and any enquiries or questions can be sent to butterfly@dementiauk.org.

Reaching out to people with dementia and to anyone needing memory support

The Butterfly Scheme provides a system of hospital care for people living with dementia or who simply find that their memory isn’t as reliable as it used to be; memory impairment can make hospitalisation distressing, but it needn’t be. In hospital, dozens of staff can pass through a patient’s life each day and in order to deliver appropriate care, they need to know that a patient has dementia or memory impairment and

how to support them; this is where the Butterfly Scheme comes in. The Butterfly Scheme has now been adopted by nearly two hundred hospitals and healthcare teams across the UK and Ireland. Hospital and healthcare staff really do want to care well and they typically enjoy using the skills and systems provided by the Butterfly Scheme, enabling them to care appropriately for this patient group – including working in partnership with carers.