SWANLEY AS A DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COMMUNITY
As a dementia friendly community Swanley (England) is just starting the flight. Hopefully, our DFC and the three other other piloted DCFs in the county (Kent) will be able to develop good practice and thereby inform other initiatives in Kent. Some 12 such DFCs are intended as a start. This blog signposts personal findings by onewho is not a professional in the field. Six months' ago, I would have been rated as "poor": now improved (a little)!
Thursday 12 March 2015
Tuesday 11 February 2014
38 Dementia - Glossary [(Update 3 - 3 March 2014]
Introduction
Prepared by a layman, a list of terms associated with dementia which will be built up in the coming months. Suggestions for terms to be included, comment and corrections will be welcomed.
assessment A series of tests for a person with memory problems which may result in a need for a specialists diagnosis to confirm either a dementia or some other illness.
assistive technology A functional device or system based on one or more technologies which may be used to support a person living with dementia.
dementia One of several similar but different progressive illnesses of the brain which result in symptoms of varying degrees.
diagnosis A specialist's investigation to determine whether a person has one or more dementias and, if so, what.
shadowing The way in which some with dementia continously follow their carer or a member of their family, perhaps throughout the day.
signage Dementia friendly perceptual and directional aids such as pictures, signs and other decorative features used in rooms, corridors, doorays, and other features of homes, hospital wards, town centres, public buildings and care accommodation.
symptoms Behaviour in varying degrees and incidence which is typical but not exclusive of a person with a dementia, including memory loss, confusion, difficulty in dealing with everyday practicalities, misperceptions, shadowing* and wandering*.
wandering The way in which some with dementia will leave their relatively safe and secure home or care accommodation, often repeatedly and go into the local community or beyond.
Prepared by a layman, a list of terms associated with dementia which will be built up in the coming months. Suggestions for terms to be included, comment and corrections will be welcomed.
assessment A series of tests for a person with memory problems which may result in a need for a specialists diagnosis to confirm either a dementia or some other illness.
assistive technology A functional device or system based on one or more technologies which may be used to support a person living with dementia.
dementia One of several similar but different progressive illnesses of the brain which result in symptoms of varying degrees.
diagnosis A specialist's investigation to determine whether a person has one or more dementias and, if so, what.
shadowing The way in which some with dementia continously follow their carer or a member of their family, perhaps throughout the day.
signage Dementia friendly perceptual and directional aids such as pictures, signs and other decorative features used in rooms, corridors, doorays, and other features of homes, hospital wards, town centres, public buildings and care accommodation.
symptoms Behaviour in varying degrees and incidence which is typical but not exclusive of a person with a dementia, including memory loss, confusion, difficulty in dealing with everyday practicalities, misperceptions, shadowing* and wandering*.
wandering The way in which some with dementia will leave their relatively safe and secure home or care accommodation, often repeatedly and go into the local community or beyond.
Sunday 22 December 2013
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Saturday 21 December 2013
37 Dementia Diary - On-going Dating Accountancy for the World
Introduction
In this post I am trying to identify forthcoming events relating to dementia.
2014
(Date) Research legacy workshop
Details and date to be ascertained - by Canada and France.
January
20 Dementia Culture and Ethnicity - Uniting BAME Communities in Dementia
Hallam Centre, London
http://www.blacknet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=73:whats-on&id=4688:yeccos-2014-conference-dementia-culture-and-ethnicity-uniting-bame-communities-in-dementia&Itemid=613
February
4 One day Essentials - Dementia
RCGP London
14 and 15 16th National Conference on Dementia London,
http://www.agewatch.org.uk/dementia-2014/
March
22 Dementia Awareness Pulic Open Day
Oxford ARUK Network Centre, Oxford
May
16 and 17 Alzheimer's Show
Olympia, London
http://alzheimersshow.co.uk/the-2014-event/
18 to 24 Dementia Awareness Week
United Kingdom
November
4 and 5 Cutting edge information to improve quality of life
Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
http://www.dementiadoctor.co.uk/page_3012321.html
In this post I am trying to identify forthcoming events relating to dementia.
2014
(Date) Research legacy workshop
Details and date to be ascertained - by Canada and France.
January
20 Dementia Culture and Ethnicity - Uniting BAME Communities in Dementia
Hallam Centre, London
http://www.blacknet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=73:whats-on&id=4688:yeccos-2014-conference-dementia-culture-and-ethnicity-uniting-bame-communities-in-dementia&Itemid=613
February
4 One day Essentials - Dementia
RCGP London
14 and 15 16th National Conference on Dementia London,
http://www.agewatch.org.uk/dementia-2014/
March
22 Dementia Awareness Pulic Open Day
Oxford ARUK Network Centre, Oxford
May
16 and 17 Alzheimer's Show
Olympia, London
http://alzheimersshow.co.uk/the-2014-event/
18 to 24 Dementia Awareness Week
United Kingdom
November
4 and 5 Cutting edge information to improve quality of life
Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
http://www.dementiadoctor.co.uk/page_3012321.html
Thursday 19 December 2013
36 Dementia - Housing and Care Homes for those with Dementia
Housing provider teams - planners, designers, developers, housing managers, professional advisers, etc - play an increasingly important role in enabling those with dementia to remain at home for as long as possible. In many respects they are a key to early diagnosis, and hence treatment in a safe and secure environment - their own home. The last sentence reflects the national imperative to reduce hospital admissions of those with dementia.
From now on dementia does or will reflect, perhaps slowly, in the education, training and continuing professional development of all the team's players.
Some local dementia action alliances will be developed to include housing as one of the themes. Some will demonstrate the action on this topic to include a closer workng configuration of the following:
From now on dementia does or will reflect, perhaps slowly, in the education, training and continuing professional development of all the team's players.
Some local dementia action alliances will be developed to include housing as one of the themes. Some will demonstrate the action on this topic to include a closer workng configuration of the following:
- social care services
- housing services
- fire and rescue services.
The first actions are likely to training and career development of staff in terms of:
- awareness of national and local policy for dementia
- awareness of the types, symptoms, and life journey with dementia
- prevalence of diagnosis and its growth
- the likely impacts of dementia oplanninn community social care, housing, residential care settings and other services.
A first approach might be awareness and information sessions for some staff being able to voluntarily become dementia friends. All staff are likely to need something similar but this might be included in sessions involving work-related topics on dementia. for housing these might include:
- planning and development aspects for dementia
- design of housing and care settings for dementia
- design of green infrastructure (gardens, open spaces etc) for dementia
- interior retro-design and retro-furnishing
- built-in or retro-fitted assistive technology in the homes and care settings for those with dementia
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