Dementia Society
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Education about dementia enabling health and wellbeing for people living for today and their closest.
Dementia Society
5y ago
Indeed it is. There are other issues to bre raised along with awareness. We need to remove dementia from being under the umbrella of Mental Health: it is not an affective disorder of the mind it is brain injury! The medical model that is often applied to anxiety and depression its totally inappropriate for dementia ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
Interesting article, a few more thoughts to throw in to the pot if I may.
The figures invested by the government in ‘awareness raising’ campaigns around mental health and dementia, whilst perhaps not huge in the overall terms of deficits and GDP are quite vast in terms of choosing to back a tiny number of major charities whose ongoing gov’t sponsored work seemingly lacks evidence of improving the lives of the people they are targeted towards.
It takes little searching to see an initial £2.5m being awarded to Alzheimer’s Society to build a campaign called dementia friends, with a further commit ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
If only ! This is the ideal that would have made my Dad’last year of life so much less chaotic. Dad had 12 admissions in 15 months, his last was for aspiration pneumonia and he subsequently sadly died. Continued battling with ‘systems red tape and policies’ took time and emotional resilience away from supporting my Dad. Lack of resources and overworked staff meant Dad didn’t always get the care he needed. The fact that I had worked as an RMN for 15 years was for some staff I think the reason to label me as interfering whilst others valued my knowledge of my dad and professional knowledge. I wa ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
Thought you might like this
http://tdaa.global/changing-face-conferences ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
As well as i can be, thank you for all you do and for putting things into perspective ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
Hi Shibley
We certainly cant afford to go unless invited to speak. Not to the big ones anyway. In my experience a lot of the really good stuff takes place away from main stage which does indeed suffer from ‘same old same old’ a lot of the time.
To clarify – my response (im purple guy) was not to the question whether a billing should read ‘person with dementia’ but whether or not the decision not to name someone was inherently wrong. Basically in my view it depends WHY the person is not named.
There is still a long way to go to make conferences as accessible as possible – notywithstanding that ..read more
Dementia Society
5y ago
Incredibly well written blog Shibley, so true and too the point, well done ..read more