You should also contact the Dementia Friends team if you are a registered Dementia Friend looking to train as a Dementia Friends Champion and deliver Information Sessions to others. If you are a business or organisation looking to start becoming more dementia-friendly, perhaps you should sign up to roll out Dementia Friends across your organisation. Please click here for more information. If you are a community who has worked towards meeting the 7 Foundation Criteria , and feel that you are ready to apply for recognition, then continue to the application form.
When completing the application form, we recommend storing your information on a Word document first and copying and pasting your responses into the application form so that you do not lose any of your work. List of all active Dementia Friendly Communities in England, with websites or contact details for further information.
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What is a Champion? Champions induction After the induction Am I eligible? What should I consider? Pull together a group of people with dementia and carers to talk about what life is like where they live: What do they like to do?
What would they like to do or have stopped doing and why? What are the barriers and opportunities? Steve Milton. Dementia Friends sessions are a great way for people to learn about dementia and what they can do to help which, for me, is more important than recognising signs — not least because the way dementia affects people varies hugely.
I believe that if we treat everyone with respect and patience we will help those people with dementia by default. For the public, it is about understanding that people living with dementia need a little more time.
We offer a unit on communication that can help people to develop their understanding. Publicity for dementia-friendly initiatives helps. How would one find a listing of local dementia-friendly services, for example?
Nigel Franklin. Strategies for coping, particularly correct communication methods, should be more widely promoted — both in homecare and care in the community. Jane Moore , co-founder, The Purple Angel. By asking us not what you can do for us, but how we can work together, by engaging with us and recognising us as contributing members of society.
Can we truly say we are a dementia-friendly society without empowering people living with dementia and their friends and supporters? Nigel Hullah. There is still a lot of stigma and misinformation, even from health and social care professionals.
Supporting this group with Dementia Friends information sessions does help by giving simple and practical information to start the education process. Suzanne Mumford , principal consultant, Care Prepared. Social care workers can best support DFCs by taking a strengths-based approach and working with people as individuals.
This seems very basic, I know, but too much social care is still stuck in fitting the people around the services rather than visa versa. It is vital to understand the needs of carers if we are to make the community dementia-friendly.
Carers are also neglecting their own health, finding it difficult to get to appointments. DFCs could bring services closer to home, and help neighbours and GPs understand that the carer needs support to attend.
Louise Marks. I would recommend starting at a local level, your local store manager has the ability to implement initiatives and will also be able to let you know whether they are already implementing any initiatives that have come from a head office level. Vicky Cockerill. If they had something to display — a certificate or a plaque — it would help.
If people with dementia are present in the workplace, it will help organisations understand the importance. Suzanne Mumford. After the initial contact, revisiting every year is vital. New staff, new shops. Stores in rural communities cannot be expected to put their money into big changes in-store but much can be done by giving more awareness each year and building on the community spirit.
Involving young people is vital.
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