As part of my ongoing commitment to the work of my longest serving client, MacIntyre, I’ve been supporting their Memories and Miles this year with some of my family. Due to COVID-19, MacIntyre are asking that people wishing to participate in Memories and Miles do so in their local area to keep these events safe…
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…
MacIntyre, my longest-serving consultancy client of 5+ years, have published a case study on one of the roundtable training days I have facilitated for their staff . You can read the case study here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-approach/resources/reducing-the-risk-of-falls-case-study-roundtable-event/ During the session staff learnt about: Factors that contribute to falls for people with a learning disability How falls impact…
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…
Today one of my consultancy clients, MacIntyre, have published a guide on poly pharmacy that they co-produced with me. You can read the guide here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-expertise/resources/poly-pharmacy-a-guide-for-staff/ This resource, which is aimed at social care staff but offers useful information for everyone, supports the national STOMP campaign: Stop the Over Medication of People with a Learning…
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…
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’.…
As part of my ongoing work with MacIntyre, I was privilaged to interview Chris Roberts, a gentleman living with dementia, and his wife Jayne at MacIntyre’s latest meeting of their pioneering Dementia Special Interest Group. As ever, Chris and Jayne were fantastically engaging speakers, and extremely candid in describing their experiences of living with dementia.…
I have been interviewed by Donald Delmohamed from MacIntyre’s ‘The Mag’ about the consultancy work I am undertaking with MacIntyre, looking at care and support for people with learning disabilities who are ageing and, for some individuals, developing dementia.
