Martin Ansell presentation at Open Forum Events' Dementia: Innovation conference.

1. Innovations in Dementia
Gloucestershire
Dr Martin Ansell

2. Collaborations in Dementia
Gloucestershire
Dr Martin Ansell

4. For your entertainment..
• Partnership working
• Education Strategy
• User & Carer involvement
• Intergenerational project

5. Education Strategy
• Since 2006
• Joint funding
• 2 x Band 7 RMNs & Administration
– E-learning (CQUIN)
– Dementia Day 1 and Day 2
– Link Worker training
– Dementia Leadership Course

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Dementia Link Worker Training

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8. Strength to Strength
• Care Homes
• Home Care
• Community Hospitals
• District Nurses
• Work and Pensions
• Dementia Friendly Tetbury
• Annual link worker Conference

9. Link worker Conference June 2014

10. Gloucestershire Residents Open To Social Services

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Patient & Carer Participation.
• Wider Collaborations……
– 2009 SHA Peer Review across the South West
• Formation of the SW Dementia Partnership
• 2 Year programme
– Anne Rawlings from Alzhiemer’s Society
• Facilitated local workshops

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Result
• Resource pack on how to engage people living
with dementia
• Designed by people with dementia
• For use at all levels by any organisation
– Strategically
– Operationally
– Locally

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• Background
• General principles
• Communications
• About consultation
• Developing groups
• Recruitment and training
• Service evaluation and
improvement

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Things which did (and didn’t) work
• Build into services from the start
• Postcard Feedback
• Managing Memory groups
• Dementia Care Mapping
• Touch Screen Technology
• Evening Carer Surgeries

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A patient trumps a thousand stats.
• Nothing like the lived experience
– “By the time he received a diagnosis the gardener
could have done it”!
• Involvement by a patient and carer in a neuro-
imaging pilot invaluable in getting the service
commissioned.

20. One Year 6 class was surveyed using
the Dementia Awareness sheet -
• out of 25 children, 21 said they
would feel confident or very
confident if they were to meet
someone with Dementia. 3 unsure
(2 of these are quite socially
awkward) and the one who said
‘not confident’ was an autistic boy
who finds social situations difficult.
• A further 64* people have been
spoken to about Dementia, though
upon further discussion the children
realised that they had spoken to
others that they had initially failed
to include such as friends and
further family members.
* actual number is higher but difficult to measure
with certainty

22. Memory Lane
She feels trapped,
Everything that happened this morning is forgotten now,
Her life is revolving around one person,
One person has affected her life,
Both their lives have been torn,
She is accepting her illness,
But she is sinking,
Further and further down hill,
The sufferers personality changes each and everyday,
The carer has commitments to stay there all the way,
Sometimes she doesn’t recognize her family,
And it winds them around the bend,
Everything that’s happened this morning is forgotten now,
And it fell down memory lane.
By Chloe Jennings
• Winning Poem – Year 8 Poetry Competition

23. Thank You.
www.dementiapartnerships.org.uk