A huge thank you to the Home Instead Norfolk teams for hosting me for a 2-hour dementia workshop last weekend. We covered supporting people at home as their dementia advances, how to support people who have lost sexual inhibitions and good practice ideas for optimising care. I had some fantastic feedback, including: …
Further to joining the Advisory Group for JDC/Dementia Publishing, I’ve become a member of Dementia Community – the new name for the organisation that publishes the Journal of Dementia Care, produces the UK Dementia Congress and provides the National Dementia Care Awards. You can find out more about Dementia Community and join (for just £1!)…
Last month I recorded a series of films with Gemma Clay, Founder and CEO of care tech start up, Sweet Pea Care, to support Sweet Pea’s mission to inform and educate families who are navigating the challenges of supporting ageing, disabled or unwell relatives. The films are now live on Sweet Pea’s Care Hubs and…
Following my 2021 and 2022 podcasts with Nicola Payne, I was invited back by Nicky to record Season 3, Episode 4 of the MacIntyre Families Podcast for World Alzheimer’s Month 2023. Nicky and I discussed the World Alzheimer’s Month theme of ‘Never too early, Never too late’ (about risk reduction) and the dementia work we’ve…
Today I’ve co-delivered a webinar for Dementia Community (the organisation behind the Journal of Dementia Care and the UK Dementia Congress) with Rosie, a lady living with a learning disability and dementia who is employed by MacIntyre, and Nicola Payne, MacIntyre’s Best Practice Manager for Health and Families. It was a content-rich hour that gave…
I’m delighted to share my most personal interview to-date, recorded in May 2023 with Toni Kent for her Challenging University podcast. This is the promotional material that accompanies the social media release: How do you create an entirely unique career based on your life’s experiences? And how do you end up advising government bodies, global…
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Parliamentary launch of the Special Dietary Network today. I spoke about identifying a person’s dietary needs (particularly relating to people with dementia), and how to support individuals with special dietary needs within social care settings. You can read more about the event and the Network here:…
I am pleased to announce that I have become a member of the Advisory Group for JDC/Dementia Publishing. Dementia Publishing Ltd is the not-for-profit Community Benefit Society which has bought the Journal of Dementia Care (JDC).
I’m honoured to have been chosen as Pippa Kelly’s 34th podcast guest for her ‘Well I Know Now…’ podcast. Pippa and I talk about our shared experiences of my dad’s and Pippa’s mum’s vascular dementia, social care, stigma, end of life care, wellbeing and so much more. To read Pippa’s introduction and listen to the…
I’ve expanded my training portfolio by becoming an Associate Trainer for 3Spirit UK Training and Consultancy. 3Spirit are a Skills for Care Centre of Excellence and they hold the Social Enterprise Mark. I have worked with 3Spirit previously, collaborating on a free equal opportunities infographic and reviewing their dementia apprenticeships. I am initially delivering 3Spirit’s Tier…
It’s been an honour to be involved with the 3rd Sector Care Awards today as part of my long-standing relationship with the team at Care Choices (see my author page) and Care Management Matters. The ceremony was held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and I presented the Dementia Care Award with a pre-recorded video speech.…
I’m delighted to have been interviewed for the 9th episode of the MacIntyre Families Podcast. You can listen to the podcast here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-approach/families/families-podcast/ My thanks go to Nicola Payne for choosing to interview me for the podcast.
I’ve been interviewed by Insequa Ltd, where I was asked: 1) What would you like the new government’s response to dementia care to be? 2) What are we getting right in dementia care? 3) Demographics determine that the ageing population in the UK will rise considerably in the coming generation. This will align with an…
Having immensely enjoyed working with MacIntyre as their external consultant for their 3-year ‘Dementia Project’, I am delighted to see their one-year-on report published. ‘Improving Dementia Support for People With a Learning Disability’ charts the award-winning Department of Health and Social Care funded ‘Dementia Project’, and explains how it successfully raised awareness of learning disability and…
As the external consultant for MacIntyre’s Dementia Project, I wrote 11 Changed Behaviour booklets, some of which have now been made available on their website. The booklets support the Changed Behaviour eBook that I wrote as part of MacIntyre’s Wellbeing for Life Toolkit. The booklets look at different ‘behaviours’ as they may be described (words like ‘aggression’…
As the external consultant for MacIntyre’s Dementia Project, I’m delighted to share links to the eBooks from the Wellbeing for Life Toolkit that MacIntyre are now making available on their website. I have written – in whole or in part – many of these resources, as well as reviewing/revising all of the resources for MacIntyre…
Today one of my consultancy clients, MacIntyre, have published a guide to running roundtable training days with staff that they co-produced with me. You can read the guide here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-expertise/resources/roundtables-best-practice-guide/ The roundtable format was originally developed by MacIntyre’s Dementia Project team, in conjunction with me, as a way of bringing staff together in regional locations,…
As part of their series of dementia-related content to support UK Dementia Action Week 2018, one of my consultancy clients, MacIntyre, have interviewed me about my work on their groundbreaking Wellbeing for Life toolkit. You can read the interview here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/news-blogs/macintyres-wellbeing-for-life-toolkit/ In the interview I talk about how I wrote content, and reviewed the entire Wellbeing…
Following today’s webinar for the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) presented by Sarah Ormston, MacIntyre’s Specialist Health Advisor and Dementia Project Manager and myself, the slides (without audio) are now available on the DAA website for anyone who wasn’t able to join the webinar live. You can find the slides here. Entitled ‘Learning Disabilities and Dementia…
I’m pleased to have been interviewed by the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) talking all about learning disabilities and dementia, including my work with MacIntyre and the DAA ‘From Seldom Heard to Seen and Heard’ Campaign. You can read the interview here: https://www.dementiaaction.org.uk/news/27003_beth_britton_on_learning_disabilities_and_dementia Thank you to the team at DAA for their support, and colleagues at…
