Staff, Members’ & Volunteers’ 
Conference & Awards Ceremony 
“It takes extraordinary people to help people 
with dementia do ordinary things”
Annual General Meeting 7th of November 2014
A New Role 
A New Role 
•Create an innovation platform across the organisation. 
•Ensure any research learning/research from innovation activity is shared across the organisation. 
•Increase trust income for innovation development. 
•Define and develop the Croftspar model of support to move Alzheimer Scotland into supported tenancies. 
•Define the ongoing development of the design of Dementia Resource Centres.
A New Role
Kilmarnock Dementia Resource Centre
Valuable Digital Applications for people affected by Dementia
The Game Jam
Pocket Pal
Personalised support prompts, such as washing machine settings, how people like their coffee, or remembering plant names! 
Pocket Pal
What is Dementia Circle?
5 Families Model
Simple Everyday Products
dementiacircle.co.uk
a research project looking at the benefits that dogs can bring to people with dementia
Service Design Student Project
Supporting Routine
How? Pilot Service
Our Service Users
Surprising Results
Surprising Results
Service Opportunities
Intervention Dogs
Intervention Dog Pilot | Katy, Bobby & John
Intervention Dog Pilot
Feedback
£80,000 
£130,000 
Funding
How 
can you resist my puppy eyes? 
Please ask your friends to text DDOG55 
to 70070 
suggested donation £3 
Alex’s Biscuit Plea…
justgiving.com/kaspa 
justgiving.com/Oscar-Dementia-Dog 
justgiving.com/Alex-Dementia-Dog 
bark@dementiadog.org
Team Alex
Staff, Members’ & Volunteers’ 
Conference & Awards Ceremony 
“It takes extraordinary people to help people 
with dementia do ordinary things”
1.5
We use the equivalent of 1.5 planets to meet our current consumption rate.
2.5 billion people on our planet live in poverty.
3 times as many people die from suicide as die from homicide or in wars.
Policy Makers 
Regulatory Bodies 
Manufacturers 
People 
Citizens 
Excluded 
Design 
Disruption 
Group
Recent Projects 
North East Together 
Gateshead Carers 
Carers Centre Newcastle 
Newcastle YMCA 
Traidcraft 
Greggs 
Ryder Architects 
Memories FC 
TRUMP 
Workshops in ECA, Dublin, Helsinki, Lugano
Design a Fortune
4 seconds of somebody’s attention is a rare opportunity
Plaques for Northern Heroes
Blue Plaques Selection Process 
Almost all the proposals for English Heritage Blue Plaques are made by members of the public who write or email the organisation before submitting a formal proposal. 
English Heritage's in-house historian researches the proposal, and the Blue Plaques’ Panel advises on which suggestions should be successful. This is composed of 13 people from various disciplines from across the country. The panel is chaired by Professor Sir David Cannadine, and includes former Poet Laureate Professor Sir Andrew Motion and buildings historian Professor Gavin Stamp. The actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry is also a prominent member of the panel. 
Roughly one third of proposals are approved in principle, and are placed on a shortlist. Because the scheme is so popular, and because a lot of detailed research has to be carried out, it takes about three years for each case to reach the top of the shortlist. Proposals which are not taken forward can only be re-proposed once ten years have elapsed.
Gateshead Carers
Newcastle YMCA
Memories F.C.
Ryder Architects
North East Together
Traidcraft
Dublin
Newcastle Carers
Today… 
I declare…
Today…
Today…
Today…
Today…
Not the end…
Staff, Members’ & Volunteers’ 
Conference & Awards Ceremony 
“It takes extraordinary people to help people 
with dementia do ordinary things”

Workshop 4 innovation developments