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…
I am delighted to have our experiences of my dad’s dementia featured as a case study in this hugely important book that explores young onset dementia. The book is a guide to recognition, diagnosis and supporting individuals with dementia and their families. ‘Young onset dementia’ is written by Hilda Hayo, Alison Ward and Jacqueline Parkes,…
Following on from MacIntyre’s successful application to the Department of Health for support from the Innovation Fund, I am looking forward to working with them as their external consultant to develop ground-breaking new resources to support people with a learning disability and dementia (or who are at risk of developing dementia) through their ‘Dementia Project’.…
Having worked with ICHOM (International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement) throughout most of 2015 on the creation of their ‘Standard Set for Dementia’, I am pleased that this work has now been published and can be found here. I was joined in the creation of this ‘Standard Set’ by people who are living with dementia, leading…
Following on from my involvement in the G8 Dementia Summit, I became a member of the Department of Health’s Dementia Post-Diagnostic Support Working Group. As a group we have today published a joint declaration across government, health, social care and the third sector to deliver better quality services to people with dementia. You can read…
I was honoured to be asked to compère the launch event today for two upcoming Jessica Kingsley publications – ‘Living better with dementia’ by Shibley Rahman and ‘What the hell happened to my brain?’ by Kate Swaffer. I wrote one of the three forewords to ‘Living better with dementia’, alongside contributions from Chris Roberts and…
I am delighted to announce that I have become a member of the Advisory Board for Engage and Create. It’s #CarersWeek Perfect time to announce the wonderful @bethyb1886 is now part of @engageandcreate Advisory Board. Welcome to the team Beth — Rachel Mortimer (@engageandcreate) June 10, 2015 Engage & Create is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated…
Today the ‘Dementia Words Matter’ Call to Action has been launched at the Quarterly DAA Meeting. The Call to Action, being made in association with DEEP (Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project), calls upon those who sign up to ‘Check’, ‘Change’ and ‘Challenge’ the words they and their organisation use when talking about dementia. As a…
Delighted to have been involved in the 24th Alzheimer Europe Conference held in Glasgow. I co-presented with one of my consultancy clients, Emma Killick of MacIntyre, on 21 October 2014 in Parallel Session P11: Dementia and intellectual disability. Emma and I presented on ‘Meeting the challenge of dementia amongst an ageing learning disability population –…
Following on from last December’s G8 Dementia Summit, the UK has been hosting the first of the legacy events. I was delighted to be invited to attend both the reception on the 18th of June and the conference event on the 19th to hear about the plans for the future and the progress that has…
