I am immensely proud to have been commissioned and now delivered a comprehensive resource for Home Instead Norfolk to run Community Dementia Awareness Sessions.

The resources is focused on post-diagnostic support and includes in-depth sessions on how to make a person’s environment enabling for them, how to communicate effectively and how to begin life story work, before going into a quick tour of other key elements of living with dementia including accessing peer support, managing medication, and rehabilitation techniques.

The resource comprises signposting to over 56 national organisations and sources of support, plus sections on local support.

I very much hope the sessions this resource will be used for bring help, hope and support to families newly diagnosed. Thank you to the team at Home Instead Norfolk, who I’ve worked with previously, for commissioning this work. I’ve loved creating this pack and I am so happy to think it will be something to help others facing situations we once faced as a family.

Look out for an article in Care Talk about this work later this year.