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Dementia-friendly communities
— what the project "Creating a dementia-friendly York" can tell us | | Author(s) | Janet Crampton, Ruth Eley |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 17, no 2, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 49-57 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Social inclusion ; Participation ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Development projects ; York. |
| Annotation | The number of people with dementia is expected to double over the next 30 years. This paper outlines findings from a research and development project to determine how York might become a more dementia-friendly city. The project team worked with existing groups and individuals, including people with dementia and family carers; established a cross sector operational group formed of statutory and non-statutory sectors; and developed a wider network to share news and ideas. The project was primarily concerned with the experience of people with dementia, generally post diagnosis, exploring their normal everyday lives as well as the contact they had and interventions from the statutory agencies. Reaching people with dementia who had not yet been diagnosed, or those on the margins of society, especially those living alone, proved hard to achieve. In order to realise a more dementia-friendly community, the project proposes a model - People, Places, Networks and Resources - for analysing the suitability and helpfulness of existing arrangements or features of a place or an organisation. The concept of "dementia-friendliness" is not the exclusive domain of the health and social care world. On the contrary, the research reveals that it is with the daily attrition of everyday life where help is most needed. People with dementia and family carers find routine activities - shopping, managing finances, using transport, keeping active - most difficult, causing them to withdraw. There are moral, economic and business reasons why we should support people to live well with their dementia, as well as reasons of health and well-being. The proposed model can be applied anywhere to support the creation of dementia-friendly communities that understand how to help. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130712208 A |
| Classmark | EA: RNA: TMB: RH: IGD: 8NYG |
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