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THE FUTURE OF HEALTH, HOUSING AND CARE

The definitive forum for dementia debate, discussion and solutions

If you’re living with dementia, involved in healthcare or work with people

with dementia then you will benefit from attending this brand new conference,

supported and led by the University of Stirling’s Dementia Services

Development Centre.

Two day conference and awards ceremony featuring high level international

speakers leading the way in dementia care best practice including:

Professor Timothy Kwok Director of Jockey

Club Centre for Positive

Ageing Department of

Medicine & Therapeutics

The Chinese University

of Hong Kong

Professor Alistair Burns National Clinical

Director for Mental

Health in Older People

and Dementia

University of

Manchester

Professor Tara Cortes

Executive Director,

The Hartford Institute

for Geriatric Nursing

New York University

College of Nursing

Professor June Andrews Director, Dementia

Services Development

Centre

University of Stirling

Professor Sridhar

Vaitheswaran Consultant Psychiatrist

Aita-Menni Hospital

Psychiatric Research

Institute

Dame Joan Bakewell Baroness

House of Lords


Tuesday 3rd November – morning sessions

The Plenary – the morning introductory address

09:00 - 09:05

Main Room

Introduction from chair: Professor Alistair Burns, University of Manchester

09:05 - 09:25 My own way: Person with dementia/carer from the Midlands discussion

09:25 - 09:55 Dementia now: Professor June Andrews, University of Stirling

09:55 - 10:25 News from the researcher: Professor Sube Banerjee, University of Sussex

10:25 - 10:30 Conclusions/instruction for concurrent sessions

10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea/coffee break

Concurrent Sessions - Breakout sessions following the morning address

Room 1 Residential Care and Institutions chaired by Martin Green, CEO of Care England

Case study: Promoting person-centred dementia practices in care homes:

Monica Diamond, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

PC P.E.A.R.L.S.™: 7 Essential person centred dementia care in care homes

Mary Schulz, Alzheimer Society of Canada

Exploring space in institutional settings; the learning from stress in air travel experiences

Kevin Charras, Fondation Mederic, Paris

Room 2 Supporting People at Home chaired by Dr Cesar Rodriguez, Consultant Psychiatrist of Old Age

Quality Care at Home

Sean Hughes, Learning and Development Officer, DSDC

Cogs clubs: A new model of weekly support sessions in early dementia

Jackie Tuppen, Admiral Nurse, UK

Supported living at home: Early onset dementia

April Dobson, Abbeyfield Society, Wales

Room 3 Understanding People with Dementia chaired by Prof Sube Banerjee, University of Sussex

Creating empathic understanding through simulation; for professional students

Patricia Bluteau, Lead for Interprofessional Education, Coventry University, UK

11:00 - 12:30 Commissioning culturally competent care

Tiwaola Kolapo, Middlesex University, UK

WV Cares: The United States’ first private-public state-wide partnership to support living well

with dementia, Helen Matheny, MS, Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, US

Room 4 Diagnosis & Understanding chaired by Jean Georges, CEO, Alzheimer Europe

Faith and community peer support toolkit

Amy Semple, Health Innovation Network, UK

A tool to help understand patients experience

The Acute Frailty Network, UK

Exploring the gifts of dementia and caregiver stress

Dr Deborah Forrest, USA

Room 5 Caring and Dementia chaired by Shirley Law, Director of Learning and Development, DSDC

Music activities and exercise for mobility wellbeing in moderate to severe dementia

Omkar Ajit Sawant, UK

Best Practice in Care Homes, Changing the Culture

Shirley Law, Head of Learning and Development, DSDC

Integrated Care in Dementia Care Homes: Improving Outcomes and Local Health Services

Cath Murray-Howard, Deputy Chief Executive Community Integrated Care, with Dave Sweeney, Director of Transformation, Halton CCG and Halton Borough Council, UK

Care &

Dementia Show

Innovation Tour: Assisted Living, Including Bathing, in Dementia Care

This programme is subject to change, please visit our website www.international dementiaconference.co.uk for the most up-to-date schedule.

This conference provides you with best practice tips from thought

leaders from across the world and is a place where you can find out about

the latest changes in dementia care that could help you to better serve

your clients, patients, family or yourself.


Tuesday 3rd November – afternoon sessions

Concurrent Sessions - Breakout sessions following the afternoon address

Room 1 Design & Dementia chaired by Lesley Palmer, Chief Architect, DSDC

How can a floor bed reduce risk of falls and injuries?

Debra Corney, Occupational Therapist, UK

Designing dementia care environments: The Japanese experience

Damian Utton, Pozzoni Architecture, UK

Room design impact on senses and people with dementia

Andrea Harman, Saint Gobain Ecophon, UK

Room 2 The Great Outdoors chaired by Sean Hughes, Learning & Development Officer, DSDC

When gardens improve well-being and social-life

Marion Villez, DSDC International Advisory Board Member, France

Nature environments for a brain healthy life

Dr Garuth Chalfont, Expert on gardens and health, UK

Creative spaces: Nature’s role in dementia care

Wendy Brewin, The Sensory Trust, UK

Room 3 Housing and Dementia chaired by Domini Gunn, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Chartered Institute of Housing

How a housing organisation can become dementia friendly

Denise Brennan, The Guinness Partnership, UK

14:00 - 16:00 ‘Making Time’ at Abbeyfield

April Dobson, Abbeyfield Society, Wales

TBC - Rebecca Davies, Orbit Housing

Small is beautiful: How change can be affected in a housing organisation

Linda Milton, Waltham Forest Housing

Room 4 Staying Home With Self Care chaired by Jilly Polson, DSDC Trainer and Occupational Therapist

Psychosocial solutions to stay at home as long as possible

Sue Provost, UK

Dementia: A 6-step self-caring approach for main carers

Chengi Kuo, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Facebook peer support in dementia

Yvonne Stewart, Nurse Consultant, Scotland

Room 5 Competent and Confident Staff: Affordable, Effective Solutions at Work chaired by Pauline

Cameron, Learning & Development Officer, DSDC

Language and Dementia

Henriette Laidlaw, DSDC

Dementia training to create sustainable attitude changes for care staff

Wendy Perry, Balhousie UK

Improving Dementia Care in Emergency Departments

Paula Paton and Julie Thakore, NHS Tayside Scotland

Care &

Dementia Show Innovation Tour: Environment for Dementia Care

The Plenary – The afternoon delegate address

15:30 – 16:00

Main Room

Afternoon tea/coffee break

16:00 – 16:30 Dr Manuel Carrasco, Director, Maria Josefa Recio Foundation – A highly successful family education programme

16:30 – 17:00 Professor Tara Cortes, Executive Director, The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing


“The International Dementia Conference will be an extraordinarily useful

event for anyone concerned with dementia whether it be from direct or

indirect personal experience and professionals concerned with practice,

policy or politics.”

Baroness Bakewell DBE


Wednesday 4th November – morning sessions

The Plenary – the morning introductory address

09:00 – 09:05

Main Room

Introduction from chair: Professor June Andrews

09:05 – 09:35 Improving aspects of hospital care by Professor Timothy Kwok, Director of Jackey Club Centre for Positive Ageing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

09:35 – 10:05 Helping consumers and businesses with money and fraud by Sara Lenz Lock, AARP Washington

10:05 – 10:30 Starting a dementia service and training, learning from India: Dr Sridhar Vaitheswaran, MD MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Schizophrenia Research Foundation

10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea/coffee break

Concurrent Sessions - Breakout sessions following the morning address


Drovers House, Rugby: The ’mini-mart’ – influences and the benefits

Damian Utton, Pozzoni Architecture, UK

Hello Holly, welcome back! A new solution to unwanted exiting dementia threshold

Richard Mazuch, IBI Group, UK

Familiarisation and personalisation; New dementia assessment units

Nigel Pilkington, DLA Freeman White, UK

Room 2 Spotlight on Excellence in Care Homes chaired by Joanne Strain, Head of Nursing Care

Standards & Quality Wales – NI – IOM Division, Four Seasons Health Care

Reflective practice in dementia care: The therapeutic lie

Gary Mitchell, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

The Ethics of Doll Therapy

Gary Mitchell, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

‘Dementia Friends’ training for undergraduate nurses

Jessie McGreevy, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

Promoting person centred language in clinical practice and society

Joanne Agnelli, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

Room 3 Research Roundup chaired by Kevin Charras, Fondation Mederic Alzheimer

Research into physical activity for people living with dementia in UK care homes

Dr Corinne Greasley-Adams, University of Stirling, Scotland

11:00-12:30 Dementia knowledge exchange: A social media platform for PhD students, how to share knowledge fast - Anna Tatton, UK

A RADIQL approach to social health care

Belinda Sosinowicz, Age Exchange, UK

Room 4 An acute trust’s journey: changing culture through research, education and service improvement

chaired by South Tees Hospital, UK

Evaluating the impact of nurse champions within an acute medical ward

Elizabeth Swanson, South Tees Hospital, UK

Professional education team changing cultures through education and service improvement

Helen Louise Robinson South Tees Hospital, UK

Quantitative measurement of staff attitudes to patients with dementia in the cardiac catheter

labs – Karen Ainsworth, South Tees Hospital, UK

Room 5 New Ideas and Engagement in Dementia chaired by Pauline Cameron, Learning and Development Officer, DSDC

Project e-ma: Transposing arts-based practice for civic engagement

Andrew Woollock, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dementia care in a forensic setting, in a low secure unit

Lisa Taylor, Partnerships in Care, UK

Dementia case-finding tool in care homes

Aileen Jackson, Health Innovation Network, UK

Care &

Dementia Show

Innovation Tour: Technology for Dementia Care


“The International Dementia Conference provides a unique opportunity for

health, social care and other workers from all sectors, private, statutory and

third sector to meet and learn from each other, and hear from global experts

in the field of dementia care, alongside people with dementia and their carers.”

Professor June Andrews

Wednesday 4th November – afternoon sessions


Planning for dementia: Building layouts for residential care

Martin Quirke, University of Newcastle, Australia

Dementia friendly GP surgery project

Katherine Barbour, Wessex Academic Health Science Network, University of Southampton, UK

Noise and dementia: A Salford university Ecophon study

Andrea Harman, Ecophon, UK

Room 2 Integration and Individualisation chaired by Ingrid Wuenning, Robert Bosch Foundation

Personalised music towards a protocol - Anna Paisley, Glasgow Caledonian University and Play List for Life and Andy Lowndes, Deputy Chair, Playlist for Life, Scotland

The flavor finders: Olfactory stimulation and reminiscence as therapy

Nadine Gilmour, Red Cross, Scotland

Ethical issues in daily practice: A team awareness process

Marie-José Martinez Guisset, France

Room 3 Ethics and Care at The End of Life Prof chaired by Allan House, University of Leeds

New team support people with dementia at the end of life

Sian Harrison, Dementia UK

14:00-15:30 Facts, feelings and fears: Supporting families through dementia and end of life Mary Schulz, Alzheimers Society, Canada

Optimising palliative care in care home settings

Joan Agnelli, Four Seasons Health Care, Northern Ireland

Room 4 Technology Solutions chaired by Dr Sridhar Vaitheswaran, MD MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Schizophrenia Research Foundation

Attitudes towards home adaptations for people with dementia

Fran Allan, University of Warwick, UK

How people with dementia and carers make it work for

them Dr Grant Gibson, University of Stirling, Scotland

Techno winners slot (TBC) Presentation of the best IT/AT from the Care & Dementia Show

Room 5 Art and Dementia Excellence Scotland chaired by Mark Butler, The People Organisation

Care &

Dementia Show

The role of music in dementia care

Angela Gray, Enterprise Music Scotland

Different art forms hit different sweet spots: Arts Council and Barings funded project creating

art “bundles” - Erik Geelhoed, Falmouth University, UK

Sense and sensation of clay sculptures with people with dementia

Sumita Chauhan, University of Kent, UK

Innovation Tour: Best of…

16:00 – 16:45

The Plenary – The afternoon delegate address

Politics and health care: Open discussion with international leaders and Plenary speakers

Main Room

16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions from chair: Professor June Andrews



“The International Dementia Conference will highlight best practice in dementia

care from all four corners of the world – it should not be missed.”

Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Mental Health in

Older People and Dementia

http://www.internationaldementiaconference.co.uk/


Join 700+ care providers and people affected by dementia from all corners of the world

who share a wish to learn about best practice dementia care. Confirmed delegates for

the 2015 conference include senior managers and business owners from:

•yfiAebldbe

• ABMU Health Board

• Age UK • AHR Architects Ltd

• Alzheimer Society of Canada

• Amara Care Limited

• Anchor

• Archial Norr

• Balhousie Care Group

• Banner Alzheimer’s Institute

• Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute

• Bournville Village Trust

• Bracknell Forest Homes

• British Red Cross

• Caring Homes Group Ltd

• Chorus Care

• Cofely Workplace Limited

• Coventry University

• Care Quality Commission

• Cramlington House

• Dementia Care

• Dementia End of Life Practice Development Team

• Gloucestershire Care Services

• Health Innovation Network South London

• Home Instead Nottingham

• Innovations in Dementia

• Jewish Care Scotland

• Kingsley Healthcare Limited

• Larchwood Court Ltd

• Leonard Cheshire Disability

• London Borough of Richmond & Richmond Clinical Commissioning Group

• London South Bank University

• Ludlow Street Healthcare Group LTD

• Maesbrook Care Home

• Majesticare

• Maria Mallaband Care Group

• Maybrook platinum care services

• Metropolitan

• New Care Projects Ltd

• New Century Care LTD

• NHS

• NHS Tayside

• North Warren Care Ltd

• Pennaf Housing Group

• PJ Care Ltd

• Poole Housing Partnership

• Saint Gobain Ecophon

• Sensory Trust

• Shared Lives Plus

• Sheffcare Ltd

• Spacezero

• Springfield Healthcare Group

• St Cloud Care Limited

• Sutton in the Elms Care Home

• The Marlay Nursing Home

• Thurrock Council

• Trident Reach the People Charity

• University of Wolverhampton

• Warwickshire County Council

• Wessex care Ltd

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

•e Choamr e and homecare providers

• Social care professionals

• NHS professionals including nursing staff

• GP’s and other primary care workers

• Researchers

• Allied health professionals including occupational

therapists

• Technology specialists, designers and architects

• Housing providers

KEY REASONS TO ATTEND

•eaLrn about best practice dementia care from

international speakers

• Identify trends that your organisation will need

to tackle in the future

• Networking opportunities with your colleagues

and peers

• Be part of a prestigious awards ceremony on

the evening of 3rd November

• Source new innovations and suppliers that can

help your clients or patients

WHO WILL YOU MEET?


CONFERENCE RATES

2 Day Conference Inc Awards £599 +VAT

2 Day Conference £499 +VAT

1 Day Conference Inc Awards £450 +VAT

1 Day Conference £350 +VAT

Awards Only £100 +VAT

The conference will take

place at the Vox, a newly

constructed conference

centre, just a short walk to

the NEC, Birmingham. The

Vox brings together first

class facilities in a great

location, minutes from the

NEC. It’s the perfect venue

choice and one where we

can provide extra support

for carers and delegates

with dementia.

“This innovative conference and exhibition will highlight global

success in implementing dementia service and training

programmes to inspire anyone affected by dementia today - I

am delighted to be part of the trail-blazing speaker line-up.”

Professor Sridhar Vaitheswaran

Consultant Psychiatrist Aita-Menni Hospital Psychiatric Research Institute

THE VENUE

“Hospital care standards are fundamental to the long-term care

of those affected by dementia today. Staff training is key and

it is an honour to share our experience of developing dementia

care in Hong Kong hospitals at this new International Dementia

Conference.”

Professor Timothy Kwok

Director of Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing Department of

Medicine & Therapeutics

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• Discussion and debate with industry leaders

• Access to over 250 suppliers showcasing the latest healthcare products

• Refreshments and lunch

• Networking opportunities with a broad international spectrum of dementia experts


ORGANISED BY:

The Dementia Services Development

Centre, UK and the Care & Dementia Show

established the International Dementia

Awards to recognise organisations and

individuals who have worked to improve

the quality of life of people with

dementia.

The awards celebrate the important work

being undertaken to support people

with dementia internationally and are

a celebration of innovation and good

practice. The judging panel will decide who

to celebrate from among the tremendous

work that is being done in the UK and

across the world.

AWARD CATEGORIES ARE

AS FOLLOWS:

• Dementia & the Arts

• Dementia Leader of the Year

• Dementia Festival Award

• Service Innovation Team of the Year

• Dementia Design Innovation of the Year

• Housing and Dementia

WHEN & WHERE

The awards will be presented by Baroness Joan Bakewell as the

centrepiece of the conference dinner on Tuesday 3rd November

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