Post on 13-Jan-2016
National Museums Liverpool
Presentation by: Claire Benjamin
Deputy DirectorEducation and Visitors
National Museums Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool
House of Memories began in 2011 with a vision to create an innovative UK dementia awareness training
programme for the health and social care workforce
Dementia in the United Kingdom
•More than 800,000 people diagnosed
•Financial cost over £23 billion
•Less than 50% of people with dementia receive an early diagnosis
•In ten years the number of people with dementia in UK will reach 1 million
House of Memories promotes the need and value for compassion, respect and dignity in care to achieve better health and wellbeing, and support for people living with dementia
The approach is the first of its kind in the UK enabling museums, and the health and social care to work together to deliver an imaginative and accessible ‘whole community’ dementia awareness training experience.
Content
Designed to enable greater understanding of the value of a person’s history and life experience
Activities include:
Interactive training day
Practical resources for settings
Free loan service
Digital memory app
The Memory Toolkit
A Bespoke Museum Guide
The Memory Suitcase
Key Outcomes
•More than 5,000 participants in Liverpool, Bury, Salford, Sunderland, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham
•Demonstrable shift in their cognitive and emotional understanding of dementia
•Programme enhanced their capacity to assess their own attitudes and performance to cultivate an appropriate care relationship.
•Majority believed that their knowledge, skills and access to resources to carry out memory activities in settings had increased significantly
“Its about caring for them and the life they once had, as well as caring for the condition and the effect it has on them”
Participant 2013
New Developments
Bespoke Housing ModelNew Suitcase content representing diverse communitiesNational launch of My House of Memories digital memory app at House of CommonsSecured patent for Europe and USAAdditional funding potential for health and social care app trainingDevelopment of a ‘buddy’ family carers training programme
My House of Memories
• To extend the learning from the training day
• To connect with new community stakeholders
• To support older people’s access to new technology
• To tackle social isolation with aging communities across the UK
• To develop international awareness and engagement
Who is it for?
• People living with dementia
• Professional Carers• Families• Active older people• Isolated older people• Networks and cultural
organisations supporting older people
Commissioning Process
• Produce a dementia friendly product• Create of an innovative and inclusive design brief• Appointment of external digital design agency
User Led Design • Co designed with people
living with dementia and their carers
• Collaboration with Innovate Dementia (Liverpool John Moores University)
• Partnership with Mersey Care NHS Trust - Mossley Hill Memory Group
My House of Memories
Future Developments 2014
•Integrate House of Memories into mainstream health strategy development and delivery
•Embed as a central training resource for the health and social care sector
•Available in every health care setting across the UK
•Develop European and USA engagement and collaboration
•Explore national and international commercial opportunities
•Establish National Museums Liverpool as the leading memory resource for people living with dementia
“The House of Memories is an exceptional project…. It is fantastic that the cultural sector is involved in work on dementia; it is a great collaboration. The work is critically important in supporting our drive to create more dementia-friendly communities.”
Norman Lamb MP: Minister of State for Care and Support 2013