Dementia
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Blog: Challenges facing care homes during lockdown
Churchill Fellow Kay Jodrell works in a care home in Torquay and shares the challenges facing residents with dementia during lockdown.
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Blog: Helping prisoners with dementia
Dementia among prisoners in our prison system is a growing but little-studied problem.
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Dementia and Montessori; fostering independence
Kay Jodrell, a nursing home worker from Torquay, travelled to Australia, Canada and the USA to investigate the application of Montessori methodology in dementia care....
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News: Churchill Fellow recognised with National Dementia Care Award
News | 21 Jan 2019 |Churchill Fellow Nicky Taylor’s pioneering festival of theatre, dementia and hope, Every Third Minute, has won a National Dementia Care Award.
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Blog: Theatre and dementia
Dementia currently affects around 850,000 people across the UK, many lacking access to stimulating social and cultural experiences and at risk of becoming isolated.
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Dementia care: Michelle Miller’s Story
Dementia lead Michelle Miller travelled to the USA and Japan in 2015 to learn how health and social care systems are supporting people with dementia and their carers....
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Blog: Rural communities that support people with dementia
Dementia is an issue everywhere, but in rural areas, the issue is exaggerated because many people are isolated. Where I live, in a village in the Scottish Highlands,...
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Video: "It's taken me in a direction I didn't anticipate"
Watch reminiscence specialist Pam Schweitzer talk about her Churchill Fellowship researching reminiscence and arts for older people with dementia, and the impact her...
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Blog: Dementia and sensory challenges
12 years ago, at the age of 57, I was diagnosed with early age dementia. I ran a chiropractor’s office at the time, and I started to get lost going to work. I had to...
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Improving dementia services for people who are LGBT
Allison O'Kelly, a nurse from Callington, Cornwall, travelled to Australia to investigate support for LGBT people with dementia.
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Improving care for people with hearing loss, tinnitus and dementia
Justine Sweet, from Tadworth, is Head of Audiology, ENT and Oral Services with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She travelled to the USA to look into improving...
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Supported Decision-Making: Learning from Australia
Janet Killeen, from Edinburgh, was the Director of Public Policy for Alzheimer Scotland before her retirement in 2012. She travelled to Australia to research best...
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Sexual identities and dementia care
Dr Jane Youell, a Chartered Psychologist from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, travelled to Australia and the USA to explore how care homes accommodate the diverse...
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Reminiscence and arts for older people in Japan
Pam Schweitzer, from Blackheath, is Director of the European Reminiscence Network and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich. Pam travelled to Japan...
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Dawn Edge’s Story
Story | By Dawn Edge | Exploring mental health and resilience in African Caribbean communities | 2014Dr Dawn Edge travelled to Canada and the USA in 2014, and Jamaica and Barbados in 2015, to explore different approaches to supporting African-Caribbean people with...
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Dementia - Fellows' Story Collection
Read more about some of our Fellows' achievements in this area.
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"Grand Dementia Designs"
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Dementia and Sensory Challenges
Agnes Houston, from Coatbridge, travelled to Canada and Ireland to meet with people who, like her, have a diagnosis of dementia. She will be collecting their lived...
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF CARE: A New Approach
William McMorran, Director of Architectonicus in Bromyard, travelled to Australia, Canada and the Netherlands to study the transformative integration of dementia care...
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Visual Arts and Older People: Exploring Models of Best Practice
Artist Sharon Goodlet, has over 17 years’ experience in arts in health delivering visual art programmes for older people in hospitals, care homes and in palliative care....
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Music and wellbeing in Older Adults, East to West
Jane Bentley is a creative arts coordinator from Glasgow. She travelled to Japan, South Korea and Malaysia to examine the ways music is being used to enhance the well...
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Arts based interventions for early stage dementia: an American perspective
Amy Veale, a research development manager from Belfast, will be travelling to Canada and the USA to research arts-based interventions for people with early stage dementia.
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Artists' engagement with life story work in nursing homes
Caroline Twist, an activities co-ordinator from Sheffield, will be travelling to Brazil and Germany, amongst other countries, to investigate the role of the artist in a...
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Photography and storytelling: people with early stage dementia's experiences explored
Alison Ward is a researcher at the University of Northampton. She will be travelling to Denmark to explore the experiences of people with early stage dementia, through...
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Creating together: connecting people with dementia, families, communities and theatre
My aim when applying for the Churchill fellowship was to explore the role of creativity ...