Keeping it personal: Implementing the dementia strategy in Bradford

							WORLD ALZHEIMER’S DAY TUESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2010-09-
NORCROFT CENTRE BRADFORD UNIVERSITY

Making it personal: Developing services for people with dementia in
Bradford

In partnership with Bradford Dementia Group, Attend and Bradford
Metropolitan District Council, we would like to invite you to a thought-
provoking event designed to share best-practice around dementia and
learning from new developments on personalisation.

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Registration
9:30 Introductions/housekeeping: Alan Griffin, Attend (Chair) – Councillor
Amir Hussain, Social Care Portfolio Holder- Janice Simpson, Assistant
Director Operational Services BDMC
9.45: A presentation on service users/carers views – Ruth Bartlett, Bradford
University
10:15-10:45: Presentation on Personalised Care for people with dementia –
Gill Gourley and Dave Ogier BDMC, with Ian and Yvonne Coombs (local carer
and person with dementia)
10:45 -11.00:”Developing community services for people with dementia”,
Claire Goodchild, Dept of Health
11:00 Singing for the Brain workshop

11.30 Coffee

11:45 45 minute Workshops on “Making it Personal”:

Workshop A: Improving dignity in care in hospitals in Bradford/Sheffield-
Dawn Parkes and Kerry Blackett
Workshop B: Using the built environment to improve people’s lives- Darryl
Smith and Janet Bell
Workshop C: Life story work in local authority care homes - Janine Teasdale
and Gaynor Taylor
12:30 Lunch: networking/information stalls

13:30 Workshops on “Making it Personal”
Workshop A: Improving dignity in care in hospitals
Workshop B: Using the built environment to improve people’s lives
Workshop C: Life story work and reminiscence in local authority care homes

14:15 Tea/Coffee
14:30 Surprise performance
14:50 Alzheimer’s Society- local work with Carers – Sarah Hodgson
15:10 Simon Arnold, Library Services
15:20 Future plans for Workforce Development - Becky Allright BDMC and
Rachel Kelly
15:30: Question Time Panel: feedback and discussion of issues raised
16:00 finish