Yeovil District Hospital is focussing on the care it gives to people with dementia and is running a musical project to enhance the way patients are cared for.
The July 2011 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website.
Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, was joined by one of the nation’s favourite poets as well as doctors, nurses, voluntary group members and people living with dementia at the second annual conference highlighting latest progress in dementia care across the South West.
The March 2011 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website.
The Alzheimer’s Society’s Singing for the Brain service has won £49,000 from the Big Lottery People’s Millions to develop more singing groups across Devon and Cornwall.
The International Dementia Excellence Awards are designed to recognise organisations and individuals who have worked to improve the quality of life of people with dementia.
Launching a major event by getting everyone on their feet for a rousing song or two may sound more football than NHS, but that was precisely how the highly-successful South West Dementia Partnership Summit 2010 began at Taunton Racecourse in April.
On 12th April Innovations in Dementia will be launching four films made by people with dementia.
The Lion’s Face is an opera about dementia which will use the medium of opera and poetry to describe the experiences of the patient, the carer and the research scientist.
This moving documentary is an honest portrayal of the strain dementia can put on a relationship, but also the enduring nature of love and the powerful role music can play in that.