Imagine you are ill. You can't live at home any

more• Hopefully the care setting you move into will look after your physical needs

• But what about the other parts of you ?

• Your emotional health, your intellectual health your creative health ?

• Your access to friends, hobbies and learning ?

• Your access to the technology we take for granted

see me, learn who I am, use this

knowledge to serve me better

• See the person first not their condition

• Learn about who they are and what is important to them

• Use this information to inform their life in your care setting

• Find out what they want to do and help them to do it

• Quality of life should be our first consideration not a desireable extra

Nourish more than my body

• Nourish my intellect

• Nourish my emotional health

• Nourish my creativity

• Engage me in the things I enjoy

• See the whole me

Everyone is different - one size does not fit all

• Need more ideas for meaningful activity and positive occupation?

• Need help motivating the people that use your care service to get involved more?

• Then find out about them and give them what THEY want

• There is one place that has many of the resources you will need....

a radical idea (?)

let staff use smartphones• Even their own smartphone !

• Install a Wi-Fi network and ongoing costs are minimal

• Fits perfectly with new model of 'relationship based care'

• Encourages 'being with' not 'doing to'

• Can be truly intergenerational

• Gives people those special quality moments that happen when you find something deeply important to them

Put the power in the hands

of your residents

Realising I could show Dorothy the hotel her

family owned for generations by accessing a photo on google images

on my iPhone

this lead to the formation of...

innovators and pioneers www.memoryappsfordementia.org• working with iPads since

2010

• World's first research into iPads and people living with dementia published in 2011 with University of Worcester

• All resources completely free

something for everyone

• mobile devices can be connected to flat screen TV's or a video projector

• so both one-to-one and groups activity sessions can be facilitated

• content available is virtually unlimited

C S I

• not Crime Scene Investigation, but :-

• CONNECTION +

• STORY +

• INTERVENTION =

• those magic moments that are so special to that individual

Staff need your mandate

• I am frequently told staff are not allowed to use mobile devices 'on the floor'

• I also know of many staff who have brought in their own tablet to serve the people they work with

• We need to end suspicion around these devices and set sensible rules where their use is positively encouraged

• Everyone will benefit as a result

• According to recent surveys by SCIE and carehome.co.uk less than 10% of care settings have Internet access for their residents

• Does this sound acceptable to you ?

• Why should people be denied what the rest of us take for granted because they live in care ?

• 'Be the change you want to see in the world' Mahatma Ghandi

aliveactivities.org & memoryappsfordementia.org

• Music, Poetry, Dance, Art

iPads

• Reminiscence and creativity activity sessions

• Training and consultancy

• Influencing policy makers