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Living Well with Dementia

Living Well with Dementia. Ruth Mantle Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Nurse Consultant Christine Steel National Dementia AHP Consultant. My name is not dementia (2010).

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Living Well with Dementia

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  1. Living Well with Dementia Ruth Mantle Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Nurse Consultant Christine Steel National Dementia AHP Consultant

  2. My name is not dementia (2010) “People with dementia often feel that dementia becomes the only thing others know about them. But they remain individuals in their own right and dementia is not the most important thing about them. Many are still able to do what they did before despite their life changing and some things becoming increasingly difficult to do.”

  3. Quality? Says who? “Quality of life is defined primarily by the person, as a person, and their circumstances, not their dementia”

  4. The Key Quality of Life Indicators

  5. The Key Quality of Life Indicators

  6. “When the day comes that I have to start asking for help...[and]...if that independence is taken away...then I hope its only taken away from me in the right way...I would like to think that I could still be consulted and still have some say in my independence”

  7. “Going to the church, I sing, makes me happy. I miss my church, now I can’t sing, can’t go to church.”

  8. “Don’t get me wrong, carers are the most important people in the world but you can have carers and keepers. The latter try and assume total responsibility for your life prematurely” (Peter Ashley, Person with dementia)

  9. Appreciative Inquiry “ ..is based on a deceptively simple premise: organisations grow in the direction of what they repeatedly ask questions about & focus their attention on. It does not focus on changing people. Instead, it invites people to engage in building the kinds of organisations they want to live in” Gervase Bushe

  10. The 5 Principles of Appreciative Inquiry

  11. The 4D Model of Appreciative Inquiry

  12. Reaching a solution..

  13. What will your solution be?

  14. Principles of Positive Risk-Taking Adapted from JRF, 2014

  15. Emotional Touchpoints

  16. Thanks for listening

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