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Training for people who work directly with those needing care and support. Based on life experiences, biases and values, and how this impacts on providing genuine person centred support.

Alison Macadam and Nada Savitch share some of the key findings from the recently completed Circles of Support project for people with dementia....

Why is it that, despite what people tell us they want, most services continue to insist on separating people’s lives into groups that are defined by the diagnostic, disability or age label we have given them?

The Circles of Support for People with Dementia Project in Mid Devon is running a free event ‘Memory Aware Mid Devon’ to provide information and advice on dementia and how people with dementia can be best supported to live well in our communities.

OK, this is a longer blog than usual, but Monday night’s Panorama programme about an elderly lady with dementia being abused and neglected in a care home made me angry

NDTi and Innovations in Dementia led this three year project which took place in four areas of the South of England and was funded by the Department of Health’s Innovation Excellence and Service Development fund...