It was lovely to be invited to the opening of Thrive‘s Sanctuary Garden in Battersea Park, London today. Hearing from Arun (client) and Neriman (carer to her mum with dementia) about their experiences of being involved with the garden was a particular highlight, as was exploring the gardens themselves and hearing more about the therapeutic benefits…
I was pleased to be able to support TIDE – Together in Dementia Everyday today – during Carers Week 2025 – as a panelist for their webinar: ‘Making Shared Care a Reality: Outcomes & Recommendations for Dementia Care’. This webinar showcased TIDE’s ‘Making Shared Care a Reality’ report, which you can read here: https://www.tide.uk.net/making-shared-care-a-reality/. Shared…
As an Ambassador for BRACE I am always keen to support their work, so it was wonderful to attend and speak at today’s ‘Let’s Talk Dementia’ event in Bristol. Let’s Talk Dementia is a free, public information event (run as a collaboration by BRACE, Alive Activities and Bristol Dementia Action Alliance) that offers attendees the chance…
I was delighted to be invited by Care Talk to join an esteemed panel of experts for their Dementia Care Roundtable event today entitled, ‘Collaborating for Change: Shaping the Future of Dementia Care’. We debated key issues affecting people with dementia and their families/unpaid carers/care partners, as well as challenges impacting services and professionals working…
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…
I was delighted to be invited back as a speaker for today’s The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Show. The description of my session, entitled ‘Wellbeing and Dementia – There’s no need to reinvent the wheel!’ was: How do you take a simple wellbeing structure, created in 2008, and use it to enhance dementia support in 2025?…
I’ve been privileged to work with MacIntyre to support their Dementia Special Interest Groups (DSIGs) since October 2013. I think I’ve now attend 30+ of these inspiring and informative meetings (here is an example from 2015), which in recent years I’ve co-hosted with Nicola Payne, MacIntyre’s Best Practice Manager for Health and Families. The MacIntyre…
Yesterday I chaired a panel at the LaingBuisson Innovation in Care Summit, which took place at Etihad Stadium, Manchester. The title of our session was: ‘Driving Innovation in Dementia Care’ and I was joined by: Giles Wilmore – Manchester Camerata Vivien Ziwocha – Boergog Care George Rook – Activist and Campaigner Jennifer Bray – University…
As part of my roles with Dementia Community I host monthly webinars. We have an exciting programme coming up in 2025, including speakers from January-June on the following topics: Holidaying with dementia Ask an Admiral Nurse Changing the cultural approach to care with Namaste Care International Understanding the impact of sight loss for people living…
Yesterday I was part of a roundtable discussion, hosted by PainChek, to explore the importance of maintaining independence for people living with dementia. Drew Hunt from PainChek hosted the roundtable, with Chris Norris, who lives with dementia, Professor Martin Green from Care England, Hannah Millar from Orchard Care Homes, Louis Holmes from North Central London…
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my curation of the Dementia Community News Feed. This is part of the work I undertake for Dementia Community as their Communication Support. So far over 400 news items that I’ve researched and written have been published and I look forward to sharing many more in the future.…
It’s been fantastic to have the opportunity to present twice during UK Dementia Congress 2024. On Tuesday 26 November I shared the stage with Nicola Payne, MacIntyre’s Best Practice Manager for Health and Families, as we presented: ‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All : Bespoke Learning Disabilities support when living with Dementia’. Brilliant to be in…
As part of my roles with Dementia Community I host monthly webinars, which today has included hosting my first Open Space webinar. Dementia Community Open Space webinars are a chance to network with Dementia Community members, share work, ideas, projects and future plans relating to dementia care and support, and find out more about Dementia…
I’ve been privileged to work with MacIntyre to support their Dementia Special Interest Groups (DSIGs) since October 2013. I think I’ve now attend 30+ of these inspiring and informative meetings (here is an example from 2015), which in recent years I’ve co-hosted with Nicola Payne, MacIntyre’s Best Practice Manager for Health and Families. The DSIG’s…
As a supporter of Dementia Adventure’s work, I was very happy to be asked onto their highly acclaimed D Tour podcast to share my thoughts on micro adventures and some of the small things we did with my dad that involved being outside. You can listen to my episode, ‘The Bucket List’, here: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/0b85f8da-64d5-4bc7-9fb3-7945f08f1f05/ Many…
I was delighted to join a panel at today’s first Person Centred Software Customer Engagement Conference. Chaired by Hannah Millar of Orchard Care, I was joined by a person living with dementia (not named at the person’s request) and Lucy O’Flaherty, CEO of Columbia Aged Care in Australia. We discussed: ‘Understanding the person behind the…
I’ve very much enjoyed speaking at today’s National Care Forum (NCF) Communities of Practice for Dementia. I shared information about how to work well with families to improve outcomes for people supported. Many thanks to Liz and Valeriia for inviting me.
I’ve been interviewed by Sui-Ling about my work with MacIntyre, dementia in people with a learning disability, World Alzheimer’s Month and MacIntyre’s work around death and dying. You can watch the film here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/news-blogs/the-sui-ling-show-episode-forty-nine-featuring-beth-britton-/ Thank you Sui-Ling for such a fabulous interview – I loved talking to you.
It has been wonderful to visit Alzheimer’s Support at The Old Silk Works Club in Wiltshire today with Liz Jones from the National Care Forum (NCF). Alzheimer’s Support were one of the winners at the Markel 3rd Sector Care Awards that I judged and NCF sponsored. It was fantastic to meet some of their Club…
I was delighted to be able to support BRACE at their Charity Gala last night. I’ve been an Ambassador for BRACE since 2013, and it was an honour to be able to support such a wonderful charity at this event and be asked to give a speech. Thank you Nikola, Chris, Elin, Liberty, Jed and…
