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Being Mindful of the Carers

This award-winning project aimed to pilot a Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy programme to carers of people with dementia and assess its effectiveness.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse, Community Mental Health Nurse, District Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, carers, dementia, dignity, mindfulness
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Dementia Pathways

This project aims to develop and implement an integrated health and social care pathway to provide support for older adults (over 65 years) living with dementia and their carers in the community co-ordinated by a named community nurse. This nurse will ensure equitable access to support, information and care from diagnosis throughout all stages of the illness to end of life.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Community Mental Health Nurse, District Nurse, General Practice Nurse
Project theme:   Mental Health, Older People
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, carers, dementia, health and social care integration, inequalities, pathways
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Enhancing dignity through relational caring conversations

This Project aimed to celebrate and develop human interaction that promotes dignity between community nurses, residents and families in care homes.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, communication, dementia, dignity
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Food for Thought: enhancing dietary preferences for the person with advanced dementia

The aim of this project was to enhance the dignity of older people with advanced dementia using innovative methods to facilitate their food and drink choice.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, dementia, hydration, nutrition
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Living Well with Dementia: Enhancing Dignity & Quality of Life, Using A Novel Intervention, Dignity Therapy

Dignity Therapy is a brief intervention that enhances the lives of people at the end of life; this project aimed to determine its effectiveness with people with early dementia.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse, Community Mental Health Nurse, District Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, dementia, Life Stories, memories
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Our Visit

This project seeks to improve the participation of older people with dementia and their care givers in activities during visiting time in a community hospital setting. Meaningful participation in activity creates improved conditions where people with dementia will be able to improve their health and wellbeing.

Project theme:   Older People, Physical Activity
Tagged with:   activity, Alzheimer’s, dementia

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