Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what talking therapies are available for dementia patients.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme began in 2008 and has transformed treatment of adult anxiety disorders and depression in England. Over 900,000 people now access IAPT services each year, and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health has pledged to expand services further to see 1.5 million people treated for mental health problems every year by 2020/21 alongside improving quality. Although IAPT does not provide complex interventions for dementia, IAPT practitioners are able to treat common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety which people with dementia may present with.