Detailed list of mini-presentations 2

Parallel 5

18 November, 2026 2:10 – 3:20 pm

Mini Presentations: Group 2

UK Dementia Congress Mini-Presentations

  

  

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PLEASE NOTE: precise running order will be confirmed at a later date.

This session contains the following mini-presentations:

Nature Without Barriers: Creating a Multisensory Indoor Nature Space to Reduce Distress and Enhance Wellbeing in Dementia Care

Karolina Nowadczyk

Healthy Body, Healthy Brain. A Mild Cognitive Impairment Information and Support group

Dr Rebekka Knight

Kathleen Sheret

Northern Ireland’s first Dementia Meeting Centre: a co-production approach to community based support

Dr Shirley Evans

How swimming can enhance the physical and emotional wellbeing of those living with Dementia in a Nursing Home setting

Mandy Gregory

When Time Aligns: Conversations Through Story, Care and Lived Experience

Gina Awad

Sarah Merriman

Dementia Conversations: Co-creating a supportive, dementia aware university community

Nicola Jacobson-Wright

Dr Chris Russell

Who Answers the Question? Small Moments and Big Messages in Dementia Care

Lynne Hagan

The Good Life (GL) course: Developing a manual and training to enable GL to be consistently delivered by community services across settings.

Mandy Willcox

Howard Gordon

‘What Does Empowerment Mean to You?’: Co-creating an Anthology of Lived Experience in Dementia

Ankita Bhojwani

Co-production and Involvement Approaches across the Eight UK Dementia Networks: Shared Insights, Challenges, and Lessons Learned, and application of the PRIME Framework (Participatory, Rights, Involvement, Mainstreaming, Embedding)

Dr Clare Hammerton

The role of food in community-based group support – the Food Glorious Food project

Thomas Morton

Photographs, Prompts and Possibility: Deepening Human Connection in Dementia Care

Louise Callin

Access to Assisted Dying for People Living with Dementia: A Narrative Review on International Legislation

Victoria Owen

Organisational Culture and Person-Centred Dementia Care; Why the care home industry does not need more models of care.

Mary-Joy Albutt

Making Dementia Science Accessible: Using AI as a Tool for Public Engagement

Emily Paremain

Stephen Kenndy

Personalising Domiciliary Dementia Care Through Co-Design: Developing a Preference-Based Matching and Scheduling App

Rasa Mikelyte

Co-producing a Quality Standards Framework for Meeting Centres: ensuring consistency while protecting what makes each centre unique

Andy Wynd

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