Graham Stokes, from UKDC’s main sponsor HC-One, kicked off the proceedings by reminding the audience of how much had changed in the 30 years since the Journal of Dementia Care was founded. “Over those years we’ve been waiting for the great medical breakthrough on dementia and that’s yet to arrive, but we do now realise…
As always there was a strong academic strand to UKDC and Dr Shirley Evans from our academic partner University of Worcester spoke about the continuing impact of the pandemic on people living with dementia, whose UK numbers are now forecast to be 1.7 million by 2040, an increase of 42% on previous estimates. It meant…
Is staff training a “magic wand” that miraculously produces results for people living with dementia? The answer from Professor Claire Surr, who gave UKDC’s annual Tom Kitwood Memorial Address, was a firm “No”. The thrust of her talk on dementia training and education was that effective training is not just a matter of what you…
Staff training in hospitals was one of several themes discussed in a plenary Q&A session in which a panel of experts answered questions put by the audience. A delegate said that ward staff had been unable to distinguish her grandad’s delirium from his dementia and had left the family members to feed him even though…
In a ground-breaking master’s degree programme at Bradford University, UKDC’s bronze sponsor, people with dementia have designed, written and partly taught one of the modules. Clare Mason, assistant professor at the university’s Centre for Applied Dementia Studies introduced the “Understanding the Me in Dementia” module, which forms part of the MSc in Advanced Dementia Studies….