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Tag Archives: Greening Dementia
Local Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils (LGA)
Summary Guidance has been released by the Local Government Association (LGA), in collaboration with the Innovations in Dementia community interest company, which explains the responsibility of councils in helping to support people with dementia through the creation of local dementia … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, BSI, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged AGE UK Coventry and Coventry City Council, AGE UK Social Care, Age UK Solihull, Alzheimer’s Australia WA, Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Alzheimer’s Society Maidstone Peer Support Group, ASK Sara Website, Avon and Wilshire MHP, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Barriers to Early Diagnosis, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (UK), Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), BME Communities, British Psychological Society, British Standards Institute, British Standards Institution (BSI), British Standards Institution (BSI): Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, BSI Guidance, BSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia Friendly Communities in England, BSI Standard, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Care Act 2014, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, Commitment to People with Dementia, Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Support, Connect Housing Association, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Councils as Employers, Coventry City Council, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Adventure CIC, Dementia Advisory Group, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Challenge Champion Groups, Dementia Champions, Dementia Champions Programme, Dementia Diaries, Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils, Dementia Friendly Community Framework: Five Domains, Dementia Friendly High Streets, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Friendly Technologies, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Sectors, Dementia-Friendly Shops, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Diagnosis and Support, Differential Impact of Dementia in BAME Communities, Drivers for Change: Dementia Friendly Bus Transport in Northumberland, Encouraging Independence and Social Interaction, Equality Act 2010, Forget Me Not (Swindon), Forget Me Not Initiative, Gateshead Dementia Action Alliance, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Hampshire Dementia Friendly High Street, Hartney Whitney, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Wellbeing and Independence, Housing Learning & Improvement Network (Housing LIN), Housing LIN, iD: Innovations in Dementia, Independence, Independence Choice and Risk, Innovations in Dementia, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Involvement of People with Dementia and Carers, Involving and Engaging People with Dementia (RIPFA), Izzi Seccombe: Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Kent County Council, Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Lesbian Gay Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT), LGA: Local Government Association, Living Well After Diagnosis, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Local Dementia Action Alliances in England, Local Dementia Friendly Communities, Local Government Association: LGA, Maidstone Mentors: Kent and Medway Primary Trust, My Day My Way, Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board, North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards, NSW Dementia Training Study Centre at the University of Wollongong, PAS 1365 (2015): Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Protection from Doorstop Crime, Public Health, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Reading Dementia Action Alliance, Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Regaining Independence, Singing For The Brain, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Innovation Lab Kent (SILK), Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Supporting People to Stay Connected, Swindon Forget Me Not Group, Think Again Programme, Timely Diagnosis, Transport, UK Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Voices of People With Dementia, Wolverhampton City Council, York Station, Yorkshire and Humber DAA
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Reduction of Health Inequalities: Natural Solutions? (UCL IHE / JCN / BBC News)
Summary This UCL Institute of Health Equity report presents the evidence on the benefits of green spaces for improving health and wellbeing outcomes. Inequalities in access to natural environments in England are thought to contribute to health inequalities. The report … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access Standards, Access to Green Space, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Green Spaces and Deprivation, Access to Greenspace, Access to Nature, Accessible Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt), Active England, Active Parks, Activities for Population Health, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Barriers to Engagement With the Natural Environment, BBC Health News, Beat the Street, Benefits of Activity, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham’s NHS-funded Be Active Programme, Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre in East London, Campaign for National Parks (CNP), Capital Woodlands, Cardiovascular Disease, Care Farming UK, Causes of Premature Mortality, Childhood Obesity, Conservation Volunteers’ Green Gyms Programme, Coventry Mind’s Ecotherapy Service, CVD: Cardiovascular Disease, Diakonhjemmet University College (Oslo), Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE), Ecominds: PoLLeN (People, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Evaluation of Access to Nature Education Projects, Exercise, Fields in Trust, Forest Schools, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens in Care Homes, Green Exercise Partnership, Green Exercise Partnership (GEP), Green Space and Health Inequalities, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Greenspace and Obesity, Greenspace for Health and Exercise, Health and the Natural Environment, Health Equity, Health Equity and Impact, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthy and Active Ageing: Life-Course Approach (WHO), Horticultural Activities, Horticultural Therapy, Horticulture, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Institute of Health and Society: University of Oslo, Institute of Health Equity, Institute of Health Equity (UCL), Institute of Nursing and Health: Diakonhjemmet University College, Integration of Physical and Mental Health, Intelligent Health, IPEN (International Physical Activity and the Environment Network), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Journal of Clinical Nursing, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Landscape & Nature), Life, Life-Course Approach to Healthy and Active Ageing, Local Action on Health Inequalities, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Authorities, Local Authority Adult Obesity Variations (England), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mappiness App, Marmot Review, Mersey Forest Natural Health Service, Midlife Obesity, Mind’s Ecominds Scheme, Mosaic, Mosaic Young Champions Project, National Outdoors for All Working Group, Natural Connections Demonstration Project, Natural England, Natural England’s “Outdoors for All” Programme, Natural England’s Walking for Health Scheme, Natural Environment, Natural Solutions to Tackling Health Inequalities, Neighbourhood Greenness, Norway, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Outdoor Activities, Outdoors for All Strategic Research Group, Parks and Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces, PHE: Public Health England, PHOF: Public Health Outcomes Framework, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Environment, Physical Exercise, Premature Mortality, Proportionate Universalism, Public Engagement, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Interventions, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF), Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces (Fields in Trust), Sensory Gardens, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Value Act 2012, Stepping Stones to Nature (SS2N) Project, TCV Green Gyms®, Therapeutic Horticulture, Travelling to School Initiative, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London Institute of Health Equity, University of Oslo, Updated Marmot Indicators (IHE), Urban Green Space and Trees, VisitWoods East Durham Outreach, Woodland Health for Youth (WHY), Woodland Trust’s Woodland Access Standard
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The Greening of Dementia (Natural England / BBC News / PNAS)
Summary Natural England, Dementia Adventure and the Woodland Trust have published a literature review concerning the benefits – and barriers – for individuals living with dementia in having access to the natural environment and local greenspace. The broad aim of this … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accessible Environments, Allotment and Gardening Projects, Balancing Risk and Choice, Barriers and Facilitators to Participation, Barriers to Engagement, Barriers to Engagement With the Natural Environment, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, BBC Health News, Benefits of Engagement With the Natural Environment, Care Farming UK, Care Farms, Care UK, Center for Conservation Biology: Stanford University, Centre for Policy and Ageing (CPA), Dementia Adventure, Dementia Adventure CIC, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Department of Biology and Woods Institute: Stanford University, Department of Psychology: Stanford University, Ecotherapy, Education and Awareness, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources: Stanford University, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Environmental Issues, Epidemiology, Equality of Access, Exercise, Forest Bathing, Gardening, Gardens, Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Green Agenda, Green Exercise, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Greenspace Organisations, Health and Wellbeing, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Improving Access, Improving Public Health, Increasing Wellbeing, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Laureate Institute for Brain Research (Tulsa), Let Nature Feed Your Senses (LEAF), Little Gate Care Farm, Local Green Spaces, Local Greenspace, Local Public Health, Local Wellbeing, Marmot Review, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing, MindScape, Moderate Exercise, Monitoring of Engagement with the Natural Environment (MENE), Multi-Sensory Engagement, National Wellbeing, Natural Choice: Securing the Value of Nature, Natural England, Natural England’s “Outdoors for All” Programme, Natural Environment, Natural Environment White Paper (2011), Nature Experience Reduces Rumination, North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Organisational and Cultural Barriers, Outdoor Learning Programme, Outdoors for All Programme, Overcoming Barriers, Physical Activity, Physical Activity Programmes, Physical Activity Rehabilitation Schemes, Physical Barriers, Physical Exercise, Physical Wellbeing, Preventative Care, Prevention, Psychological and Social Barriers, Psychological Wellbeing, Public Health, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Aversion, Risk Management, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Rumination, School of Community Medicine (Tulsa USA), Scrubditch Care Farm Project, Shinrin-Yoku: Taking in the Forest Atmosphere aka Forest Bathing, Social Epidemiology, Social Prescribing, Social Wellbeing, Spitalfields City Farm, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex (sgPFC), Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex Activation, Sweden, Tailored Dementia Friendly Activities, The Hive: Worcester, Upstream Interventions, Urbanization and Mental Illness, VisitWoods Project, Wellbeing, Wildlife Projects, Wildlife Trust, Woodland Trust, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
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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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