Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Dementia Friendly Community

24/09/2024

Just finished the ethical discussion of The Long Goodbye with .

Please share the video by NHS Scotland to start to change the stigma around dementia https://www.nhsinform.scot/campaigns/rethink-dementia/

Look out for the recording where Maxine Linnellshares her thoughtful and constructive views on how to change the discrimination that 88% of people diagnosed and living with dementia feel.

When a friend or relative is diagnosed with dementia, it’s natural not to know what to do. But, helping someone stay connected and socially active can help them stay well for longer. It’s time to rethink dementia.

23/09/2024

😱 Shocking Ignorance on Dementia and Ageism in Health and Care

On Friday I attended the Alzheimer's Disease International
webinar hosted by Paola Barbarino for the release of the World Alzheimer's Report-2024. Lots of shocking facts, but perhaps the worst is 65% of health and care professionals believe dementia is a normal part of ageing.

If this is the case how can somebody who is concerned or diagnosed with dementia feel they are being given the support they need for their illness from health and care professionals?

What does this say about Ageism in health and care ?

I remember a brave GP standing at one of the first Alzheimer's Society Conferences, way back in 2014, and saying she "didn't feel she should be the first point of contact as she had been trained to prescribe medicines and as there were no medicines to prescribe for dementia, how could she support somebody with dementia".

Should our GP's really be the primary point of contact for dementia in the UK?

Could a diagnosis of dementia occur through a different process?

Could people make their own appointments for an assessment at a memory clinic and not waste their time and that of GP's?

Given the voices of people diagnosed and living with dementia aren't listened too, acknowledged or trusted who can deliver effective training to our health and care professionals?

I absolutely think it's time to rethink the way we support the dementia community hashtag .

What would you do?

Read more sobering information in the full report,https://www.alzint.org/u/World-Alzheimer-Report-2024.pdf

Image is a screen shot from the Alzheimer's Disease International webinar on Friday.

18/09/2024

Age Inclusive Travel 🌍 🧳

Myself and my co-host Dr Tom Adler who developed Bide are delighted to share our latest all inclusive solutions podcast with Adriane Berg.

Adriane was a pioneer of elder law, worked on US syndicated radio and hosted one of the first money programmes on CNN.

Less than a year ago she and her husband of 52 years set up the The Ageless Traveler Salon, which is born out of Adriane’s passion for travel and wanting to make lifelong travel easier for us all.

She strongly believes that travel brings us to life, no matter what our age, and wants to enable people to continue to travel throughout their life.

Take a listen to find out more about the various things people can over come to continue to travel throughout their lives.

https://podfollow.com/1743032476

Thanks for an insightful discussion Adriane Berg.

06/09/2024

Inclusive Sports 🤝🧑‍🦽🏅

Dr Tom Adler founder of Bide and I are delighted to introduce the 10th guest on our all inclusive solutions podcast, Hunt Skelley PLY.

You will probably recognise her voice if you have been listening to the Channel 4 coverage for wheelchair tennis at the hashtag .

Take a listen to this inspirational lady who is not just a champion wheel chair tennis player, but a tennis tournament director, commentator, motivational speaker and an amazing advocate and consultant for and for all.

Thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us Louise Hunt Skelley PLY. We definitely need to arrange for you to give me a lesson in wheelchair tennis and consider running a pilot to see if this is a way to get retired tennis players, like myself, back on the tennis court.

Enjoy commentating and watching the wonderful athletes at .

We will be rooting for your husband Christopher Skelley MBE PLY to win his 3rd Gold Medal.

Click on the link to have a listen https://podfollow.com/1743032476

Fiona Scott Hannah Edwards

15/05/2024

all inclusive solutions Podcast - with Emily Yates

I am so excited to announce the release of our latest podcast with Emily Rose Yates, NRAC Consultant for Group https://mimagroup.com/, who speaks about what is important to enable in tourism.

During its fantastic to hear from Emily Rose Yates, NRAC Consultant, Head of Accessibility and Inclusive Design, at Mima Group who led the co-creation of The VisitEngland Accessible and Inclusive Tourism. Toolkit for businesses released at the end of last year.

Working with her to incorporate the perspectives of the dementia community into the Toolkit highlighted just how important it is for the community to join together with other communities to create not just , but which enable and empower everybody to live their best lives through travel and tourism.

Have a listen to the solutions she highlights to myself and my co-host Dr Tom Adler founder of Bide. Her enthusiasm, zest for life and pragmatic approach to problem solving is infectious.

https://podfollow.com/1743032476/view

30/04/2024

I'm a Co-Host on a podcast 🎙️🎙️

To celebrate my 60th Year I am excited to announce the launch of a new podcast called all inclusive solutions, which I am co-hosting with Dr Tom Adler from https://www.facebook.com/getbide

Tom and I will be meeting insightful and interesting people to hear about innovative solutions which are making a real difference to challenges they are having or witnessing in our communities.

We are aiming to share health and wellbeing solutions to support people who want to live their best lives while living with disabilities, chronic health conditions, frailty or advancing years.

We will also share learnings from our guests to enable our listeners to have the confidence to follow their passion and develop their new innovative solutions to empower people to live their best life.

Have a listen to our introductory trailer in the link
https://sargentgroup.consulting/pod-test/ to find out more about Tom and I, why we decided to become co-hosts of the all inclusive podcast and what topics we are going to covering.

Big THANK YOU to @ Mike Land and Richard Mayneord from Nickel Design for our branding and to Fiona Scott and Hannah Edwards from Scott Media Scott Media for their advice and editing the podcast.

Please let us know what you think and what topics you would like to hear us discussing with our guests.

Please contact us if you are interested in being a guest to share your solution with our listeners.

Look out for the announcement of our very first guest, coming very very soon.

Enjoy

07/07/2023

Just finished a great networking event with people from all different groups who are passionate about supporting our dementia community in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland at Our House at The Academy for Dementia Research and Education in Lutterworth.

We are looking forward to the participants posting the great things they are involved with that are supporting our dementia community.

If you would like to share other super initiatives that are going on your local community then please post them in this group.

If you want to find out more about whats going on in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to create a more dementia friendly community then please follow us.

If you would like to join our network please send us a message.

Our next network meeting will be on online on Wednesday 11th October from 9.30 to 11 am. You can join using the link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5239764473