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Dementia Project. Prime M inister’s D ementia Challenge: ‘ In March 2012 set a challenge to deliver major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015’. Range of work going on in order to meet this challenge. Dementia friendly communities (including schools).
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Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge: ‘ In March 2012 set a challenge to deliver major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015’. • Range of work going on in order to meet this challenge. • Dementia friendly communities (including schools).
Co-operative learning trust • Self-responsibility, social responsibility and caring for others. • Importance of wider community. • Vision to build a culture within which every pupil finds a way to contribute to the wider community.
How did we get involved? • Exemplary Health and Social Care Department. • Range of qualifications. • A level Health and Social Care complete a unit ‘Care Practice and Provision’. • Rock Sturt (BME service development officer) suggested that NSfG should apply to become one of the pioneer group schools for the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. • Students were instrumental in our bid to become one of the pioneer schools.
The project so far……….. • Dementia forest – provided a way of starting the conversation in our school about dementia. • Every member of our school community was invited to anonymously complete a label.
My Mum had dementia and couldn’t remember me and just hugged me and said I was a lovely girl. My Dad had dementia and used to comment that my Mum was a good woman and always helped him but he didn’t know who she was until a week before he died when he referred to her as ‘my lovely wife’.