Dover Demans Friendly yapmak için Eylem

As part of Dementia Awareness Week, Yerel Demans Alliance Liz Taylor ile yerel işletmeler ve kuruluşlar için Dover Belediye Konseyinde bir etkinlik düzenledi, Doğu Kent Alzheimer Derneği'nde Hizmetleri Müdürü

üzerinde 40 people attended with a good number of organisations and businesses represented. Liz spoke about the need for businesses to recognise what a vital role they can play by making their business Dementia Friendly. Küçük iyileştirmeler iyi Tabela içerebilir, Aydınlatma ve hatta girişlerinde paspaslar rengini değiştirerek (siyah paspaslar izlenimini verebilir olarak demans olanlara bir delik vardır). With the retirement age increasing, employees may develop dementia so employers need to be aware of good practice to enable people to continue to be able to work – and Liz explained how a branch of a national supermarket had taken action on this. As our population ages employers also need to be aware that employees may have caring responsibilities and make adjustments to manage the pressures that this can bring.

Businesses can sign up to display the recognition symbol “Working Towards Being Dementia Friendly”.

Locally we have organisations taking this issue seriously, Dover Transport Museum are using their facilities to play a very useful role in helping people with Dementia. In St Margaret’s Bay the Bay Trust Tea rooms are developing a Memory Café.

Dawn Maddison of the smART Project (who provide weekly drop in Art based sessions) tried on the Age Simulation suit which gives the effects of aging and her comments were:

Everyone should try this suit- it made me realise how frightening it is to have impaired movement, restricted vision and poor hearing which make everyday tasks challenging. Yürüme 10 metres and pouring a glass of water turned into a major feat!

Some of the other groups present spoke briefly about the work they do in relation to DementiaBig Local Stitching group spoke about making “twiddle muffs” and the blue dementia badge and Dawn Hyde spoke about the Live It Library which features people showing how you can live well with Dementia. Ted Smith told the meeting about how volunteers from the Dover White Cliffs Branch of the Royal British Legion visit veterans in the community and talk with them about past experiences. Nigel Callaghan spoke about the Wet Wheels Project which is based at the Dover Sea -Sports Centre (as part of Sea Safari), who have a fully accessible 12-seater motor boat that can take passengers with disabilities on pre-arranged trips.

daha fazla bilgi paylaşımı bir Demans Arkadaşları Eğitim oturumu sonra gerçekleşti. Locally the Alliance is very keen to continue to work with the community by increasing the number of Dementia Friends and awareness of the condition.

Yerel Demans Alliance Haziran ayında toplantı ve herkes dahil olmanın ilgileniyor ya da işletme veya kuruluş Demans Friendly olma yolunda nasıl çalıştığını hakkında daha fazla öğrenmek istiyorsa başvurun edilecek 07772 471905.

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