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…
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…
Having been a judge for the 2024 Markel 3rd Sector Care Awards, I was delighted to be asked back as a judge again for the 2025 awards. It was wonderful being at the Awards today to see all the finalists celebrated and the winners pick up their awards. So much inspirational work and wonderful individuals,…
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…
I’m delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist at tonight’s Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) awards in the ‘Talent Development’ category. The promotional material for the awards says: “Over 85% of the social care workforce is female. Many of these hard working, dedicated and talented women juggle the challenges of family life with their…
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…
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.
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…
As part of my ongoing work with MacIntyre as their Dementia Consultant, I am proud to have supported the MacIntyre Health Team to create their first Dementia Pathway document. This comprehensive document provides MacIntyre services with a clear 3-step Pathway of dementia support which includes bespoke interventions for services to ensure staff have the skills…
I’m looking forward to speaking at ‘Words Matter: Redefining Language in Dementia Care’, the first of KYN’s Dementia Action Week Programme of Events on Monday 13 May at 12 noon. I’ll be on a panel with Professor Martin Green from Care England and Tom Owen from My Home Life. The panel will be chaired by…
Having been a judge for this year’s Markel 3rd Sector Care Awards, I loved being at the 10th anniversary of the Awards today to see all the finalists celebrated and the winners pick up their awards. So much inspirational work and wonderful individuals, teams and projects being celebrated. Many thanks to Lisa Werthman and her…
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: …
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…
I was delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist for last night’s Social Care Leadership Awards in the ‘Dementia Care Leader’ Category. It was fantastic to have the opportunity to network with professionals in the social care sector and meet friends old and new.
I’ve written for the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) Yearbook on Page 81, looking at how we can better support people living in care homes with special dietary needs. This follows on from the Parliamentary Launch of the Special Dietary Network that I spoke at in May 2023.
I’ve had a great time today doing a takeover of the renowned social care show The Caring View. For my takeover I was joined by Rosie and Meg from MacIntyre (who I work with as part of the MacIntyre Health Team), and Chris Maddocks and Masood (Maq) Qureshi, two Experts by Experience that I deliver…
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:…
