Moving towards #DementiaFriendly

The Trust’s dementia strategy launch at the December Board meeting set out three years’ worth of ambitions for us to be a dementia-friendly organisation.

Ahead of next week’s Dementia Awareness Week, a workshop run by Area Clinical Lead Duncan Moore on Monday (8^th May) explored how we will plan in training programmes, how we can start to get staff and volunteers engaged, and how patient feedback can be put to effective use.

Duncan said: “We’ve been working behind the scenes with the Alzheimer’s Society and Dementia Action Alliance for some months now, and also working out the realities of what we can achieve across the organisation and what the implications of learning, training and developing are in reality. I’d like to thank everyone who has got behind this strategy – it will improve our care of, and contact with, people living with dementia and their carers, and will help us being a leading trust in this area of care.”

During Dementia Awareness Week, please look out for information to share on social media, and also let us know if you have anything planned to promote it that you want to share with staff, volunteers, and the public. You can either comment below, or use the contact details for the Communications team here.

For more information on the strategy, visit here.

Published 11th May, 2017