Dementia Friendly Community: Enhancing Quality of Life

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2. Dementia Friendly Community Goals Desired Outcomes • Community and system capacity that enhances quality of life and positive outcomes for people living with dementia and their caregivers Indicators • Increased quality of life • Increased community awareness of dementia • Increased dementia friendly business and financial practices • Increased access to community life and meaningful engagement through dementia friendly services and supports • Increased rates of detection/diagnosis • Increased rates of advance planning • Reduced fraud and abuse

3. What is a Dementia Friendly Community? All sectors are informed, safe and respectful (age vs. dementia friendly)

4. Sector-Specific Dementia Friendly Practices • Businesses • Community-based supports • Faith communities • Health care community • Legal and financial services • Local government • Residential settings

5. Community Toolkit Phases • Convenekey community leaders and members to understand dementia and its implications for your community. Then, form an Action Team. • Engagekey leaders to assess current strengths and gaps in your community using a comprehensive engagement tool. • Analyzeyour community needs and determine the issues stakeholders are motivated to act on; then set community goals. • ACT together to establish implementation plans for your goals and identify ways to measure progress.

6. Convene Phase: The Action Team

7. Engage Phase: Actions Needed Sectors: • Care Partners • Community Services • Government • Healthcare • Business • Financial/Legal • Faith • Rural • Define your community • Determine who to survey and who will survey • Target sectors • Include diverse populations

8. Analyze Phase: Planning for Action Look for High Priority, Low Activity areas of need

9. Act Phase: Working Together • Awareness and education programs • Training: Business, clinical, government, law enforcement, youth, first responder and faith • New caregiver supports, respite and trainings • New meaningful engagement opportunities for persons living with dementia (e.g. music, arts)

10. Communities in Action Early Results Of Communities In Action • 32 Action Communities • Awareness and education: Dementia Friends • Caregiver supports • New, meaningful community engagement opportunities (arts, music) • Cross-Sector Engagement and Training: business, government, law enforcement, youth, first responder and faith • Health system adoption of optimal dementia care practices

11. DFA Network Communities Early Adopters Committing/Preparing Inquiring Minnesota Boston Montgomery County Prince Georges County, MD West Virginia Denver, CO Santa Clara County, CA Tempe, AZ

12. DFA Network Communities

13. Desired Impact: Is There a Finish Line? Person with Dementia—Well-Being Care Partner Efficacy Care Partner Support and Family Health Community Capability: Adoption of dementia friendly practices within and across all community sectors (e.g., faith, business, government, health care) System Capability: Adoption of optimal dementia care and supports in health, long term care and community services

14. Discussion Questions • What have you heard about dementia friendly communities that most resonates with you? • What seems ripe for action in your specific community? • What big questions or concerns do you have?

15. Discussion Questions • Looking at readiness criteria, does our community feel ready? • Where do we feel we are equipped to move forward? • What do we need most to move forward? • What are we most worried and excited about?

16. Next Steps Planning • Dementia Friendly Meeting: • Tuesday, February 28, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Cleveland Clinic LRCBH, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89106 • Complete questionnaire(s) online: • http://friendlynv.wordpress.com/