Dementia and Communities

10 helpful hints for dementia-friendly communities is full of practical tips for organising a community which harnesses the will and the skills of its members to create an environment which supports its people who are living with dementia.

Motherwell’s dementia friendly community initiative is now well known. The simple approach and easy to use tools and methodology have been picked up across Scotland, across the rest of the UK and even further afield, including Norway and other European countries. Sandra Shafii looks at why building dementia friendly communities is an AHP’s business.

Read how a dementia friendly community is being built in Motherwell.

Motherwell’s community-led approach towards dementia is making a real difference to the lives of patients, carers and their families in the area, as reported by STV News in October 2012.

East Dunbartonshire is an area in Scotland where citizens generally enjoy a very good quality of life, with relatively low levels of unemployment and material deprivation. One of the most significant social challenges facing East Dunbartonshire, however, is its ageing population. Julie Christie wrote The East Dunbartonshire Advisory Clinic Model: Better outcomes for people affected… Read more »

Dementia-friendly communities, as communities that enable people with dementia to remain involved and active and have control over their lives for as long as possible, centrally involve social support and social networks for people living with dementia. The purpose of this research was to explore and understand the context of dementia in rural northern communities… Read more »

After hearing Dr Amit Dias speak at the Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference in Toronto, Ann applied for a Churchill travel grant to visit him in India to research his work on grass roots lay programmes to detect early symptoms of dementia and carer stress, but more importantly how to red flag these and do something… Read more »