Desk Study
For Swanley an on-going desk study revealed a number of dementia-related support services. Follow-up activities will result in a series of information materials, namely:
- a directory or series of mini-directories
- some of the posts on this blog
- an ongoing diary of dementia -related events
- a panel of speakers on a number of relevant topics.
First Community Meeting
The first communiuty meeting resulted in 25 residents, councillors, community representatives and servives providers, etc revealing insights into experential views of the kinds of need, change and actions. It resulted in action leading to the wider distribution of the surveys
Surveys
A series of anonymous but targetted surveys provided insights to the following:
- an aggregated general picture of awareness and inforamtion held by residents, councillors, those in businesses, service providers and the like
- the needs of those in the town who are living with dementia
- the needs of families and carers of those who have dementia
Second Community Meetings
The second community meeting received and then discussed the following:
- the analysis of anonymous results of the surveys
- the need for future actions - both joint and several
- ways of partnering projects or programmes
- coordination of the many initiatives by individuals and organisations
- the setting up of a dementia forum or dementia action alliance.
