Innovations in Dementia

Gloucestershire

Dr Martin Ansell

Collaborations in Dementia

Gloucestershire

Dr Martin Ansell

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• Partnership working• Education Strategy• User & Carer involvement• Intergenerational project

Education Strategy

• Since 2006• Joint funding• 2 x Band 7 RMNs & Administration

– E-learning (CQUIN)– Dementia Day 1 and Day 2– Link Worker training

– Dementia Leadership Course

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Dementia Link Worker Training

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Strength to Strength

• Care Homes• Home Care• Community Hospitals• District Nurses• Work and Pensions• Dementia Friendly Tetbury• Annual link worker Conference

Link worker Conference June 2014

Gloucestershire Residents Open To Social Services

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Patient & Carer Participation.

• Wider Collaborations……– 2009 SHA Peer Review across the South West

• Formation of the SW Dementia Partnership• 2 Year programme

– Anne Rawlings from Alzhiemer’s Society• Facilitated local workshops

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Result

• Resource pack on how to engage people living with dementia

• Designed by people with dementia• For use at all levels by any organisation

– Strategically– Operationally– Locally

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• Background• General principles• Communications• About consultation• Developing groups• Recruitment and training• Service evaluation and

improvement

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Things which did (and didn’t) work

• Build into services from the start• Postcard Feedback• Managing Memory groups• Dementia Care Mapping

• Touch Screen Technology• Evening Carer Surgeries

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A patient trumps a thousand stats.

• Nothing like the lived experience– “By the time he received a diagnosis the gardener

could have done it”!• Involvement by a patient and carer in a neuro-

imaging pilot invaluable in getting the service commissioned.

Prime Minister’s Intergenerational Challenge on Dementia

One Year 6 class was surveyed using the Dementia Awareness sheet -

• out of 25 children, 21 said they would feel confident or very confident if they were to meet someone with Dementia. 3 unsure (2 of these are quite socially awkward) and the one who said ‘not confident’ was an autistic boy who finds social situations difficult.

• A further 64* people have been spoken to about Dementia, though upon further discussion the children realised that they had spoken to others that they had initially failed to include such as friends and further family members.

* actual number is higher but difficult to measure with certainty

Memory Lane

She feels trapped, Everything that happened this morning is forgotten now, Her life is revolving around one person, One person has affected her life, Both their lives have been torn, She is accepting her illness, But she is sinking, Further and further down hill, The sufferers personality changes each and everyday, The carer has commitments to stay there all the way, Sometimes she doesn’t recognize her family, And it winds them around the bend, Everything that’s happened this morning is forgotten now, And it fell down memory lane. By Chloe Jennings

• Winning Poem – Year 8 Poetry Competition

Thank You.

www.dementiapartnerships.org.uk