{"id":295,"date":"2014-06-03T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/?p=295"},"modified":"2014-06-03T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:33:37","slug":"dementia-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2014\/06\/03\/dementia-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Dementia Awareness week (<span style=\"color: #353535\">#DAW2014)<\/span> and Fit for the Future considers some lessons that we have learned from working with people with dementia in our Primecare Dementia Design group:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t underestimate the ability of people with dementia to make valid and meaningful contributions &#8211; in our group they have weighed in on training for staff, outcomes focussed working and supervision. They aren&#8217;t just giving the perspective of somebody who uses support, they have years of professional and life experience!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes direct questioning isn&#8217;t the best approach and it&#8217;s best to hold conversations based on experience and introduce themes through the conversations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What might seem like an offshoot or a tangent is sometimes actually on topic, but the person is struggling to find the words they&#8217;re looking for. A bit of patience and they sometimes get there themselves! We try not to interrupt people as they find their words..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We know to be aware that some of our activities\/exercises may not work &#8211; and are ready to abandon them in favour of what would be better for the people in the group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regular breaks help!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Dementia Awareness week (#DAW2014) and Fit for the Future considers some lessons that we have learned from working with people with dementia in our Primecare Dementia Design group: Don&#8217;t underestimate the ability of people with dementia to make valid and meaningful contributions &#8211; in our group they have weighed in on training &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2014\/06\/03\/dementia-awareness-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dementia Awareness Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}