Futures Forum: Jobs and services: caring for the elderly
Futures Forum: Population and migration: care for the elderly
There have been several initiatives in Sidmouth to help sufferers and carers of dementia:
Futures Forum: The future of dementia in Sidmouth
Futures Forum: Sidmouth as a dementia-friendly town
Futures Forum: Caring for the elderly: providing care at home
Futures Forum: The Future for Heath in Sidmouth: event Tuesday 26th November: agenda
Futures Forum: The Future for Health in Sidmouth: Community Matron for dementia
Futures Forum: Dementia Friends in Sidmouth - across the generations
Futures Forum: Respite service for dementia carers set up at Sidmouth's Memory Cafe
Futures Forum: "Making our communities more dementia aware"
Futures Forum: A more dementia-friendly Devon
Futures Forum: An uncertain future for dementia care in East Devon
Local organisations have been pooling their resources:
Alliance against dementia
11:00 07 September 2015
Mark McGlade of Home Instead with Phil Lee (lions club of Sidmouth),Adrian Ford (Sid Valley Memory Cafe) and Paul Whitehouse (Sidmouth Rotary Club) at a meeting in February. Ref exb 3594-08-15TI. Picture: Terry Ife
Communities across East Devon are teaming up to share their best ideas for giving people living with dementia the support they need.
Sidmouth is joining Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth and Seaton in the Dementia Action Alliance – recognising that while there is support available, each town has a high proportion of elderly residents.
It is hoped the initiative can accelerate the existing volunteer work – including Sidmouth’s £100,000 campaign to fund an Admiral Nurse – and continue to increase awareness of the once little-understood ailment.
Mark McGlade, chairman of the alliance and the director of Home Instead Senior Care, said: “The four towns of Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Seaton and Sidmouth each have a proud history of supporting those living with dementia and their carers.
“Each town has an active memory café, but also a much higher than national average of older people living in the community. The challenge for many communities is how to destigmatise dementia and to create a more caring and dementia-friendly environment for all. It can be a long and hard process to change perceptions, but with education and understanding, great things can be achieved. Bringing together like-minded champions from across the East Devon coastal towns area, we are able to build a greater momentum, share best practices, help more people and ultimately speed up the process of making our towns more dementia friendly.”
The new umbrella group will bring together the most effective elements of initiatives from acorss the towns, and reach out to new members, from businesses and local authorities to churches and health centres.
Alliance against dementia - News - Sidmouth Herald
The Herald has been campaigning to bring specialist care to Sidmouth:
Nurse will make a ‘huge difference’ - News - Sidmouth Herald
This is the latest on the Herald's campaign:
UK’s chief Admiral Nurse: ‘We tell fundraisers to look at the work done in Sid Valley’
16:30 01 January 2016
The Admiral Nurse campaign launches at St Francis Hall. Ref shs 6123-20-15AW. Picture: Alex Walton
Dementia UK’s chief executive has praised the work of campaigners and residents in the Sid Valley for their initiative and drive to bring an Admiral Nurse to the area.
Head of the charity and chief Admiral Nurse Hilda Hayo spent a career spanning more than 30 years helping people living with dementia and their loved-ones.
Head of the charity and chief Admiral Nurse Hilda Hayo spent a career spanning more than 30 years helping people living with dementia and their loved-ones.
Her team has been working in partnership with trustees at the Sid Valley Memory Café to bring a dementia specialist to the area, which has the second-highest elderly population in the country.
The memory café launched a £100,000 campaign in May, in partnership with the Sidmouth Herald, to secure two years’ worth of funding.
The Sid Valley’s Admiral Nurse would be the first in Devon.
The Herald reported last week that the campaign has now reached the halfway mark.
Mrs Hayo said: “It is absolutely fantastic what the memory café has done. We get people who want to fundraise and it takes them a while to get to £10,000. We point them to look at the work of the memory café. They are organised and get groups of people together and they raise the money.”
Dementia UK celebrated 25 years of Admiral Nursing this year. It was set up in 1990 by the family of Joseph Levy CBE BEM. The British Empire Medal recipient, affectionately known as ‘Admiral Joe’ because of his love of sailing, was diagnosed with vascular dementia. His family saw there was a need for a service to support loved-ones and provided funding for staff training.
Over the last 25 years, the number of Admiral Nurses across the UK has grown from one to 145. This number is set to rise to 200 by the end of 2016. Most of the country’s Admiral Nurses are based around London, with the specialists spread sporadically as far as Glasgow and Cornwall.
Mrs Hayo said: “When I came into the profession, I came in to make a difference. It is my dream job. Part of my career involved helping families living with dementia. For every Admiral Nurse, it helps between 40 and 80 families. The biggest difference I have seen is that people are talking about dementia now because we have an understanding. Living with dementia can be an incredibly hard and lonely experience for both the person with dementia and their family. We want more families to know that they aren’t alone and that we’re here to help them. We believe passionately that everyone who needs the support of an Admiral Nurse should have one.”
UK’s chief Admiral Nurse: ‘We tell fundraisers to look at the work done in Sid Valley’ - News - Sidmouth Herald
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