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Tag Archives: Circles of Support for People with Dementia
A Framework of Promising Interventions for Improving the Support of People Living With Dementia (Age UK)
Summary An Age UK report investigates a variety of interventions which may be of assistance in the support of people with dementia and their families / carers. Case studies of services and projects designed to support wellbeing / living well … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Systematic Reviews, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accessible Transport, Active Daily Lives, Age UK Camden, Age UK Norfolk, Age UK South Staffordshire, Age-Friendly Environments, Alternatives to Hospital for People with Dementia, Alzheimer Scotland, Assistive Technology Supporting Independence of People With Dementia, Barriers to Self-Management for People with Dementia, Barriers: Discrimination, Befriending, Befriending Interventions, Befriending Services, Better Care for Older Patients With Dementia, Better Policies for People with Dementia, Blackburn With Darwen Connect, BUDS (Better Understanding for Dementia in Sandwell), BUDS Befriending Service, Built Environment, Butterfly Scheme, Care for People with Dementia, Care Pathways for People With Dementia, Carer Information and Support Programme (CrISP), Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Challenges of Living with Dementia, Circles of Support, Circles of Support for People with Dementia, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Cogs Clubs, Community Connections, Community Factors, Counselling for People with Dementia, Dance Well, Dance Well Project, DEEP2: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Adventure, Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Experiences, Dementia Friendly GP Surgeries (iSPACE), Dementia Friendly Heathrow, Dementia Project at Thrive Trunkwell Gardens, Dementia Rights and the Social Model of Disability, Dementia Self-Help Project, Dementia Statements, Dementia Statements (Refreshed), Dementia Wellbeing Coordination, Dementia Wellbeing Coordination (Age UK Norfolk), Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly GP Surgeries, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Inclusive Communities, Dementia-Inclusive Society, Design and Built Environment, Enabling Services, Environmental Design, Experiences, Five Pillars of Post-Diagnostic Support, Five Pillars of Support, Focus on Abilities Instead of Losses, Housing and People with Dementia, iD: Innovations in Dementia, Improving Outcomes for People Living With Dementia, Inclusion, Innovations in Dementia, Institutional Factors, Intrapersonal Processes and Primary Groups, iSPACE – Dementia Friendly GP Surgeries, JABADAO, Kitwood Flower, Kitwood Flower (Six Psychological Needs: Attachment Love Comfort Identity Inclusion and Occupation), Liverpool Service User Reference Forum (SURF), Living Together With Dementia, Living Together with Dementia (LTwD) Programme, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (M-CST), Marginalisation in Dementia, Marginalised Users, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Patient and Carer Experiences, Peer Support, Person-Centred Planning, Personal Wellbeing, Positive Inclusion and Participation, Positive Relationships, Post Diagnosis Link Workers, Post-Diagnosis Support in Glasgow, Post-Diagnostic Support, Post-Diagnostic Support for People with Dementia, Pre-Diagnostic Support, Primary Care Navigators (Age UK Camden), Primary Care Navigators (PCNs), Promising Approaches to Living Well With Dementia (Age UK), Public Policy, Public Transport, Reducing Discrimination, Rights-Based Approaches to Dementia, Roller Mill: Day Opportunities From Age UK South Staffordshire, Salford Way, Shake Your Tail Feather, Shared Lives for Dementia, Six Psychological Needs: Attachment Love Comfort Identity Inclusion and Occupation (Kitwood Flower), Social Inclusion, Social Model of Disability (Mental Health Foundation), Sporting Memories, Sporting Memories Network CIC, Standing Together, Standing Together Project, Stigma and Discrimination, Support for Couple Relationships, Support for Living Well With Dementia, Tavistock Relationships, Tesco, Tesco Dementia Friendly Checkouts, Thrive, Tom Kitwood, Transport and Mobility, Vulnerable Adult Cards
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Dementia Peer Support Resource Tool (Health Innovation Network)
Summary The Health Innovation Network has produced a dementia peer support resource tool, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK and Innovations in Dementia. This tool is designed to assist with establishing and running peer support networks for people … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Advice and Information, AGE UK Checklist for Dementia Friendly Environments, Alzheimer’s Society’s Talking Point Forum, Arts 4 Dementia: Reawakening the Mind, Authoring Dementia-Friendly Information (Style Guides), Big Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Funding, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), BME Communities, Carers Trust, Circles of Support for People with Dementia, City Bridge Trust, Cognitive Stimulation, Commissioning Dementia Support Services, Community and Voluntary Sector, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Creating Websites for People With Dementia, DEEP Guide to Writing Dementia-Friendly Information, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Action Alliance, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Adventure, Dementia Adventure CIC, Dementia Advisers, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Connect: Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Services Directory, Dementia Empowerment and Engagement Project, Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Navigators, Dementia Peer Support Resource Tool: Health Innovation Network, Dementia Services Development Centre (University of Stirling), Dementia Services Directory: Dementia Connect (Alzheimer’s Society), Dementia Words Matter: Guideline, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Information, Dementia-Friendly Information (Style Guides), Dementia-Friendly Writing, Dire Straits (Not the Rock Band) Support Group, Discussion Forums, DSDC: Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre, Dulwich Helpline, Dulwich Helpline Group, eLearning: The Open Dementia Programme (SCIE), Funding Central, Funding For All, GRANTNet, Guys Hospital, Health Innovation Network, Health Innovation Network South London, Healthy Living Club, Healthy Living Club (HLC), Hope & Doodle Group, How2Fundraise, iD: Innovations in Dementia, Independence, Independence and Relationships, Independent Living, Information About Services, Information and Advice, Information and Support for Carers, Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Information Needs of People with Dementia, Innovations in Dementia, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Jasmine Cafe, Jasmine Club, Jasmine Club (BAME Group), Lambeth and Southwark Older People’s Information Directory, Lewy Body Society, London Community Foundation, London Dementia Commissioners Network, London Social Care Partnership (Formerly the Joint Improvement Partnership), Loneliness and Dementia, Loneliness and Social Isolation, LSCP: London Social Care Partnership, Maintaining Independence, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Navigators: Coordinators of Care, Older People: Independence and Mental Wellbeing, Peer Support, Peer Support - Making it Happen, Peer Support – Principles in Practice, Peer Support Groups, Peer Support in Long Term Conditions, Peer Support Network Model: Evaluation, Peer Support Networks, Peer Support Networks: Evaluation, Peer Support Services, Peer Support Workers, Peer Support: Fundraising, Peer Support: Venues and Environments, PQASSO: Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations, Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations (PQASSO), Preventing Loneliness, Regaining Independence, SCIE Open Dementia Programme, SCIE Resource on Dementia-Friendly Environments, Self-Esteem (Peer Support), Self-Help Groups, Self-Help Groups for People With Dementia, Services and Support for BAME Communities, Signposting, Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Silver Line, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Networking, Social Networks, South London, Staying Independent, Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), Talking Point, The Funding Network, UK Community Foundations, University of Stirling's Dementia Services Development Centre, Voluntary Community Social Enterprise (VCSE), Web-Based Discussion Forums, Young Persons Dementia Group South London, Younger People with Dementia Support Group
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Loneliness of Dementia Exposed (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary The Alzheimer’s Society is campaigning for towns and cities to become “dementia-friendly” in order to improve the social inclusion of sufferers. The results of surveys conducted by the Alzheimer’s Society and YouGov regarding the problems of loneliness and social … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accessible Community Activities, Acknowledgement of Potential, Active and Supportive Communities, Active Engagement, Active Life for Frail Isolated Elders (ALFIE), Active Life for Frail Isolated Elders (ALFIE): Tower Hamlets, AESOP Consortium, Age and Ageing, Age-Friendly Environments, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia: 2013 BAME Inquiry, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, BBC Health News, Befrienders, Businesses and Services, Circles of Support for People with Dementia, Community, Community Activities, Community Connections, Community Engagement, Community Life, Community Networks, Community Support, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crawley Dementia Action Alliance, Creating Community, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Crystal Blue Consulting, Cuimhne: Irish Memory Loss Alliance, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Empowerment and Engagement Project, Dementia Friendly Environments: Changing Environments, Dementia Friends, Dementia Without Walls (York), Dementia-Friendly Churches, Dementia-friendly Churches: North West Midlands, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Communities (DFCsurvey), Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Supportive Communities, Developing Dementia Friendly Environments, Developing Dementia Friendly Environments for Specific Cultural Communities, Early Diagnosis, Easy-to-Navigate Environments, Economic Case for Dementia-Friendly Communities, Elderly Care Facilitators, Empowerment, Empowerment and Dementia, Engagement, Enjoyment and General Engagement, Environmental Design, Environmental Improvements, GeniUS! York, Gnosall Medical Practice, Greening Dementia, Hampshire Dementia Adviser Service, Happy Safe Out and About (buddy scheme), Inclusion, Independence, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Loneliness, Loneliness and Dementia, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Maintaining Independence, Museum of Liverpool, National Dementia Declaration, Neighbourhoods for Life, Patient Involvement, Plymouth Arts and Heritage Service, Preventing Loneliness, Respectful and Responsive Businesses and Services, Safe Environments, Seldom Heard Groups, Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion, Staying Independent, Stigma, Stigma-Free Environments, Supportive Environments, Think Again Programme, Think Again Programme: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Timely Diagnosis, Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours, Transport, Travel, Worcestershire County Council Museum Services, YouGov, Your Community Matters: Merseyside
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Stronger Collective Voice for People With Dementia (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2012]. Summary This report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) summarises a one-year investigation into groups and projects involving … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Mental Health Foundation, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ACE Club (Rhyl), Active Involvement Groups, Advisory Group Involvement, Advocacy and Advice Services, Alzheimer’s Society Research Network, Alzheimer’s Society Service User Research Panels (SURPS), Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation, Awareness, Awareness Raising, Barriers and Facilitators to Participation, Bay Tree Voices (Bradford), Building Community Assets, Charter of Rights for People with Dementia and their Carers in Scotland, Circles of Support for People with Dementia, Citizen Participation, Community Empowerment, Community Groups, DEEP, DEEP2: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Advice and Peer Support Service (Trafford), Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Leadership Group, Development & Later Life (Mental Health Foundation), Doncaster Dementia Forum, EDUCATE (Early Dementia Users Co-operative Aiming To Educate), Empowerment, Empowerment and Dementia, Engagement, Forget Me Not (Swindon), Hope Group (Brighton), Informal Networks, Information and Advice, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Involvement Project: Involving people living with Dementia (South West England), Involving People Living with Dementia Reference Group, Leadership, Leadership and Active Involvement Groups, Living With Dementia Group (LWDG), Lobbying, Mapping Community Facilities, Memory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP), Non-Involvement, Non-Participation, Open Doors Project (Salford), Participation, Participation of Older People, Peer Support, Positive Dementia Group, Positive Dementia Group (Aberdeen), Scottish Dementia Working Group (SDWG), Service User Involvement, Social Networks, Stronger Collective Voice, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), Tokenism, Torbay Dementia Leadership Group, User Involvement, User Participation, Validity or Tokenism, West Berkshire Empowerment Group
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