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Living Well With Dementia Aging: are we doing it right? Living Well With Dementia A health and social priority! Social Isolation Defined as a low quality and quantity of contact with others Caregivers, also isolated, lose their own

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Living Well With Dementia

Aging: are we doing it right?

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Living Well With Dementia

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A health and social priority!

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Social Isolation

  • Defined as a low quality and quantity of contact with
  • thers
  • Caregivers, also isolated, lose their own sense of

personhood

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Most importantly …

  • There is a human right that people with dementia

have, like anyone, should expect to live well

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Time for change!

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People with dementia want a voice!

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See me not my disease! I’m still me!

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  • Dyan says …
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Outcomes Important to Quality of Life:

  • I have personal choice and control or influence over

decisions about me

  • I know that services are designed around me and my

needs

  • I have support that helps me live my life
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Outcomes Important to Quality of Life

  • I have knowledge and know-how to get what I need
  • I live in an enabling and supportive environment

where I feel valued and understood

  • And I know there is research going on which delivers

a better quality of life now and hope for the future

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Client Advisory Committee

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The Blue Umbrella

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Program Focus Areas

  • Advertising

Campaign

  • Posters/ Flyers
  • Media
  • Public Exposure

changing the face of dementia

  • Public Training
  • Training

Package with tools

  • Personal

Identifiers

  • Community

Identifier

Identify Educate Promote Awareness Redefine

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Staff and Volunteers Together

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“Walk-abouts”

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Education Sessions

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Identifiers

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Secret Shoppers

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Business response

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Bobcaygeon’s Success

  • Small rural town, 3000 permanent residents
  • 50+ businesses educated
  • 60+ people with dementia wearing the identifier
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Bobcaygeon’s Success:

  • Reports of improved customer services
  • Businesses and services want to know more
  • Service providers want to enhance for their own

unique needs

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Across the province:

  • 5 Local Societies now piloting Blue Umbrella
  • Evaluation to support more roll-out
  • Creation of education models for unique business

and service groups

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Some promising wins:

  • City of Cornwall
  • Upper Canada Village
  • Banks
  • Libraries
  • Faith Community
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Hamilton, Toronto, Peel, Durham and York Regions

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London, Ottawa, Sault Ste Marie, Huron County, Sudbury, Toronto, Grey-Bruce, Durham, Waterloo, Niagara, Perth County

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Taking Control of Our Lives: A self-management program for people living with dementia

Waterloo, Durham, Niagara, Perth County and Thunder Bay

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Unique activities in numerous Local Alzheimer Societies

– IPOD music program (Toronto, Muskoka) – Art activities (St. Thomas) – Choirs (London, Kingston) – Exercise programs (Peterborough, Hagersville) – Intergenerational activities (Lindsay) – Social get-togethers (Bobcaygeon, Brockville)

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Join the movement. Sign up today! www.dementiafriends.ca Or email us to find out more at info@dementiafriends.ca

Sam Roberts Caroline Cameron David Hearn

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Workplace education

  • Designing modules for customer/client-facing staff

– Retail businesses and service providers – Emergency responders – Retirement home staff – Financial institutions – Legal institutions – Municipal leaders – Community housing workers – Employers of people with dementia – Employees recently diagnosed with dementia

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Dementia as a disability

  • What does “disease” mean to us?
  • What would change if we used “disability” language?
  • What does history show us?
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Dementia Friendly

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Change the environment, not the person

Stigma Attitudes Inclusion Physical Social

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  • A dementia-friendly community is a place where

people living with dementia are supported to live a high quality of life with meaning, purpose and value.

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Dementia Friendly Communities

  • Developing a framework for a

model that will bring collective impact

  • Multiple stakeholders focused

through one model, with many different activities and

  • utcomes, but one common

vision

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Dementia lens to Age-Friendly

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At the end of the day, people living with dementia will:

  • Be more actively engaged outside of their home
  • Feel safer in their community
  • Enjoy where they live
  • Continue to maintain personal interests and activities
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At the end of the day, people living with dementia will:

  • Be recognized as valuable contributors to their

communities

  • Live longer in the home of their choice
  • Experience less stigma
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And even more so …

  • Feel empowered, have higher aspirations
  • Maintain a higher level of independence and control
  • Experience personalized and integrated care as the

norm

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Thank you!

David Webster: dwebster@alzheimeront.org