The project aims to give people with dementia and their carers living in West Berkshire access to the information they want and need via a variety of media, including a local Dementia information website, to inform, empower and improve lives. Read more »
An ‘Hour to Remember’ dementia awareness training programme is being delivered in Yeovil District Hospital, enabling staff, volunteers and carers to become engaged in a wide range of dementia initiatives. Read more »
An ‘Hour to Remember’ dementia awareness training programme is being delivered in Yeovil District Hospital, enabling staff, volunteers and carers to become engaged in a wide range of dementia initiatives. Read more »
Dementia education and training is being delivered to staff at Torbay Hospital to develop underpinning skills and knowledge to provide an effective, evidence based approach to the care of people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust are using a new e-learning platform to deliver a variety of education modules to a mixed group of staff to raise awareness and understanding about dementia. Read more »
Advice for patients and carers in Great Western Hospital, SwindonAn Alzheimer’s Society volunteer working in Great Western Hospital, Swindon, is providing advice to patients and carers on Jupiter Ward and signposting them to community resources. Read more »
This project aimed to improve dementia care in Somerset’s general hospitals through the secondment of two members of staff from the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Read more »
The project aims to familiarise staff in University Hospitals Bristol with ‘This is me’, a simple leaflet devised by the Alzheimer’s Society to support people with dementia in an unfamiliar environment such as hospital. Read more »
Wiltshire Council’s Dementia Strategy Group have produced a DVD to improve early recognition of memory problems for people who may be reluctant to approach their GP. Read more »