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Local Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils (LGA)

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 →

Reduction of Health Inequalities: Natural Solutions? (UCL IHE / JCN / BBC News)

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care 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 | 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 | Leave a comment

The Greening of Dementia (Natural England / BBC News / PNAS)

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

Loneliness of Dementia Exposed (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 →

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