Article Category: Community Care

‘A whole month of pleasure’ – making music on the South Downs.

Freya Wynn-Jones, Kathy Fordham and Vicky Hill celebrate an innovative project for people with dementia and their carers at Glyndebourne Opera House. Author/s: Freya Wynn-Jones, Kathy Fordham, Vicky Hill For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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Recognising the needs of children of younger people with dementia.

While research has explored the impact of caring on younger people, little is known about the impact on children of having a parent with dementia. Emma Svanberg summarises the process children go through in order to adapt to dementia in a parent, and suggests ways in which services can take their experiences into account. Author/s:...

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‘New beginnings’: towards distributed responsibility in memory services.

Sean Page, Kevin Hope and Chris Maj describe the second phase of the New Beginnings project in the Ashton, Wigan and Leigh Memory Assessment Service. Author/s: Sean Page, Kevin Hope, Chris Maj For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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Achieving Gold Standard end-of-life care for people with dementia in care homes

Care homes play a major role in supporting people with dementia at the end of their lives. Seeking to understand the views of staff on the care they provide, Nicola Wheeler and Jan R Oyebode held focus groups with a range of staff in nine care homes in the West Midlands. Here they discuss their...

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Working with lesbian and gay people with dementia

Jenny Mackenzie looks at the cultural and historical forces at work for a lesbian or gay person with dementia and shows how this information can help practitioners to offer inclusive personcentred care Author/s: Jenny Mackenzie For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if...

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‘Making things more real’ Changing our view of dementia

In this second part of her conversation with Kate Allan and John Killick, Agnes Houston celebrates the inner strength she has discovered since she was diagnosed with dementia. Author/s: Agnes Houston, Kate Allan and John Killick For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available...

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Partnership in word and deed

Sue Garwood describes the work of Newcastle’s Dementia Care Partnership, an organisation with a long history of carer and user involvement Author/s: Sue Garwood For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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A cuppa in the country

Nellie Minnema tells the story of starting a successful dementia café in a rural area Author/s: Nellie Minnema For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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A family-centred approach to dementia care

Penny Hibberd and colleagues describe the background to family-centred care and discuss how this approach can help people with dementia to maintain family relationships in a familiar environment with the people they know best Author/s: Penny Hibberd For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is...

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Consulting service users on their day centre

Sandra Neil and Sladjana Ivanis describe how they sought the views of people with dementia attending a day centre in north west England, and highlight the implications Author/s: Sandra Neil, Sladjana Ivanis For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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