Integrating dementia care in England and The Netherlands: four comparative local case studies.

The article presents a cross-national comparative study of the implementation of integrated dementia care at local level in England and The Netherlands. Four local case studies (Amsterdam Nieuw West, Leeds West, Maastricht, York) focus on the interaction between the respective national policies with local contexts and policy processes, in order to explain the variety of local outcomes regarding integrated dementia care. Localities are shown as entities with particular institutional contexts and histories (i.e. local configurations), which have specific impacts on processes of policy implementation within the respective national health and social care systems.