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Tag Archives: Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing
Dementia: Skilling the Housing Workforce (Housing LIN)
Summary To mark Dementia Awareness Week, the Housing Learning and Improvement Network have published a new “Making a start” report (and Resource Pack) designed to provide information and assistance for housing providers. These resources aim to equip the housing workforce with … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abbeyfield Dementia Training, Abbeyfield Society, Age UK Training, Aids and Adaptations, Art of Living, Awareness Raising, Axiom Housing Association, B3Living, Care Fit For VIPS, Centre for Housing and Support, Chartered Institute of Housing, Cultural Competence, DAA Dementia Declaration, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia and Housing Working Group, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Awareness Week, Dementia Awareness Week 2014, Dementia Centres and Specialist Dementia Trainers, Dementia Friendly Environments in Sheltered Housing, Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing, Dementia Friendly Housing Organisations, Dementia Friends Champions, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Skills Gap, Dementia Support Pilot Services, Dementia Training Sources, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Communities at the Housing Level, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Developing Dementia Friendly Environments, EARLI Tool, Education and Awareness, Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing and Dementia, Generic Mental Health Skills, Gentoo, Gentoo’s Vision, Guinness Partnership, Hanover, Health and Housing, Heantun Housing Association, Home Adaptations, Housing Adaptations, Housing and Ageing, Housing and Extra Care, Housing Associations, Housing in Later Life, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), Housing Managers, Housing Organisations, Hull Dementia Academy, Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), Increasing Awareness of Dementia, Integration of Housing Care and Support, Knowsley Housing Trust (KHT), Life Story Work, Life Story Work in Dementia Care, Liverpool House of Memories, Loneliness and Isolation, Longhurst Group, Meaningful Activity, Memory Roadshows, Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Midland Heart, National Housing Federation, National Housing Federation: Dementia and Housing Working Group, Orbit Charitable Trust (OCT), Orbit Group, Orbit Heart of England (OHE), Positive Risk Taking, Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), Riverside, Riverside Home Improvement Agency (HIA), Riverside Housing Association, Safeguarding, Sheltered and Supported Housing, Sheltered Housing Schemes, Skills, Staff Awareness, Staff Functions in General Needs Housing, Staff Skills, Staffordshire Housing Association, Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group (SCCG), Taunton Deane Borough Council, Tom Kitwood, Training Framework for General Needs Housing Staff: Level 1 – Basic Awareness Raising, Training Framework for General Needs Housing Staff: Level 2 – Foundation Level, Training Framework for General Needs Housing Staff: Level 3 – Extra Topic-Based Sessions, VIP Framework, Worcester Association for Dementia Studies, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Training
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Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Summary This Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report presents twenty “grassroots” dementia-friendly projects, which are examples of how communities across Yorkshire are being transformed along more dementia-friendly lines. The projects have been based in shops, churches, mosques, legal services, cafes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Age-Friendly Communities, Age-Friendly Environments, Airedale General Hospital, Airedale General Hospital: Keighley, Alzheimer’s Society Bradford Area, Bradford, Care in Local Communities, Church of England, Church of England Diocese of Bradford, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, City of York Council, Co-operative Society, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Dementia Café, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Doncaster, Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing, Dementia Without Walls, Dementia Without Walls (York), Dementia Without Walls Project, Dementia-Friendly Churches, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Libraries, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire, Doncaster, Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group, Doorstep Crime Project, Fenwick Department Store: York, Health Action Local Engagement (HALE), Health Action Local Engagement Healthy Living Project, Hull & East Yorkshire, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust, Intergenerational Cohesion, Intergenerational Mingling, Intergenerational Relations, Intergenerational Solidarity, Joseph Rowntree School in YorkJoseph Rowntree School in York, Keighley, Leeds, Libraries, Local Community Assets, Local Community Groups, Meri Yaadain Project, Museums, North Yorkshire County Council Libraries, Northallerton, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Roshni South Asian Women’s Resource Centre, Rothwell, Rowntree Foundation, Schools, Sheffield, Shipley, South Asian Communities (in Bradford), South Asian Community, Sport and Active Leisure: City of York Council, Sport and Leisure, Tea Cosy Memory Café: Rothwell, Trading Standards, Trading Standards Doorstep Crime Project, Transport, York, York Dementia Without Walls, York Hospital, York’s Dementia Without Walls Initiative, York’s Sport and Active Leisure, Yorkshire
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Self-Help Groups for People With Dementia Living in Extra Care Housing (Housing LIN)
Summary The Housing LIN Case Study No 80 summarises findings from the Mental Health Foundation’s (still ongoing) evaluation of three peer support groups for people in the early stages of dementia, living in three Housing21 extra care housing schemes. Peer … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing and Dementia, Housing and Ageing, Housing and Dementia, Housing and Mental Health, Housing and People with Dementia, Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), Housing21, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Lawton-Brody International Activities of Daily Living Scale (IADL), Loneliness, Loneliness and Dementia, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mutual Support, Peer Support, Peer Support Groups, Peer Support in Long Term Conditions, Peer Support Networks, Peer Support Roles, Peer Support Services, Preventing Loneliness, Retirement Communities, Retirement Housing, Self-Esteem (Peer Support), Self-Help, Self-Help Groups, Self-Help Groups for People With Dementia, Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (sWEMWBS), Social Capital, Social Isolation, Social Networks, Social Wellbeing, Social Wellbeing in Extra Care Housing, Support Networks, SWEMWBS: Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale
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National Housing for Older People Awards (Housing LIN)
Summary The National Housing for Older People Awards celebrate the best specialist housing for older people in the UK. The award winner in the category for the most innovative extra care housing scheme has been won by Oakwood Lodge (managed … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Local Interest, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Wolverhampton
Tagged Dementia Friendly Environments in Sheltered Housing, Dementia Friendly Extra Care Housing, Ethos of Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Scheme, Health and Housing, Housing, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Housing Providers, Housing With Care, Meaningful Activity, Midland Heart, National Housing for Older People Awards, Oakwood Lodge (Willenhall), Retirement Housing, Sheltered Housing Schemes, Social Activities, Very Sheltered Schemes, Willenhall
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