Derbyshire Dementia Friendly Community - AUDIT LOG - October 17

Priority No.

Priority Area

Action Date raised Assigned to

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Arts, culture, leisure and recreation

a) Work with National Trust to train Dementia Friends Champions to deliver Dementia Friends to National Trust staff and volunteers. Work then on environmental audits and ‘walk throughs’ with people living with dementia.

b) Working to establish 4 dementia friendly film screenings in each borough of

Derbyshire for the next 4 years. In the past year (Aug 16 – July 17) we have organised 11 screenings. We have currently have 22 planned from August 2017 through to October 2018. These are scheduled for Amber Valley, Chesterfield, Derby, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak and South Derbyshire. We will be working with partners and organisations across Derbyshire, and specifically in Bolsover and North East Derbyshire, to continue and establish the service across the county for the remainder of 2017 and in to 2018.

We will continue our working with venue partners, Public Health workers, Adult Care staff, Community and Voluntary Services, local authorities, Fire Service, Making Space, Alzheimer’s Society, care homes and volunteers to publicise and improve the scheme.

Outside of Derbyshire, we have provided advice and support to Mansfield Library and Broadway Cinema, Nottingham on how to deliver dementia friendly cinema. matineederbyshire@gmail.com We will continue to give advice to other arts venues and cinema venues in Derbyshire, and in the East Midlands so that they feel enabled to run dementia friendly events themselves.

We will continue to offer Dementia Friends sessions for partners and organisations

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Co-Chairs tim.benson@alzheimers.org.uk pippa.foster@alzheimers.org.uk Matinée Derbyshire, Arts Derbyshire (Project Coordinator: Frances Watt) matineederbyshire@gmail.com

Dementia Action Alliance

that we work with. c) Dementia Friendly swimming sessions were launched during DAW following bespoke

training to 26 staff “Understanding Dementia in the leisure environment” delivered by Alzheimer’s Society. Alfreton FC and Making Space running a Sporting Connections group monthly based at the football ground. Walking for Health Dementia Inclusive walks from Ripley Leisure Centre Weekly

d) Derby City Council Leisure Services have taken action to be more dementia friendly by arranging Dementia Friend briefings for their staff. This includes all staff at Derby Arena, staff involved in the Active Aging Programme at Leisure Centres across the City, the Derby Community Trust Sporting Memories Project and all staff in the LiveWell Programme. Staff have all made their individual pledges on how they will be dementia friendly at work and in their private lives.

e) Making Space have worked with SEWA (Asian Ladies Dementia Friends Group) to

promote awareness of dementia as multi-cultural issue. The group worked with Artcore to make silk / screen printing scarves for the SEWA ladies to take to a national Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project event in Edinburgh to deliver a performance. Making Space have worked with the Dementia Engagement Empowerment Project to develop a Derby DEEP group. Working with Derby University the group supports people with dementia and carers to provide feedback on local services to assist them to be more dementia friendly. Making Space and Déda’s Dance Development and Learning Team have been exploring how dance can be used as an aid to improving the wellbeing of those living with Dementia – running a pilot projectto promote dementia friendly dance classes and raising awareness of importance of exercise

f) DFC Coordinator continues to work with PFP Buxton, New Mills and Glossop to begin Dementia Friendly Swim session trials, to be mirrored in all 3 leisure centres.

Members continue to deliver dementia friends awareness sessions to Buxton Festival volunteers yearly.

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PFP Leisure Amber Valley Borough Council Making Space jennyhedgecock@pfpleisure.org kirk.monk@ambervalley.gov.uk Honor.Simpson@makingspace.co.uk Ian Chennery Derby City Council Ian.Chennery@derby.gov.uk Amy Brewster – Making Space Amy.Brewster@makingspace.co.uk Buxton & High Peak DAA Lauren Curry Lauren.Curry@alzheimers.org.uk

Support and presentation delivered at local Mind For Music event in Buxton.

Three Dementia Friendly Matinee Screenings scheduled to take place at the end of 2017 at the Pavilion Gardens.

DFC Coordinator working with Pavilion Gardens management staff to become a Dementia Friendly arts venue in order to hold future dementia friendly events.

Be Well group, Glossop working in conjunction with Dementia Friendly Glossopdale are holding their own Memory Walk within Glossop.

Peak National Park is holding monthly Health Walks in the Peak District with their rangers

g) Destination Chesterfield -Ongoing promotion through Destination Chesterfield

website, social media and other marketing activity of Memory Market, Dementia Friendly film screenings. Careline - Raising awareness of dementia friendly social opportunities and Careline and Support services through attendance at the “beach event” at Hasland.

Chesterfield Borough Council in partnership with Arts Derbyshire and the Matinee Project - The Pomegranate Theatre in Chesterfield now has screenings of films that are specifically targeted at those in the community living with dementia, and their friends, family and carers. We focus on classic musicals from the 1950s that bring back a lot of memories to people from their younger days - and there is often some singing along to the soundtrack with well remembered classic songs! We provide tea, coffee and cake, as well as reminiscence activities before the film, and during the interval. We aim to create an informal and welcoming atmosphere for everyone involved.

Chesterfield Borough Council - The CDAA is in talks with both CBC owned sports centres in Chesterfield to see if we can deliver dementia friendly swimming sessions.

Chesterfield DAA – Wendy Blunt Wendy.Blunt@Chesterfield.gov.uk

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Businesses and shops

a) Alzheimers Society has been working with Shops and Businesses in Alfreton area as part of the Dementia Friendly Alfreton Project .Also funded to work with shops in Belper to deliver training course “Understanding your Customers with dementia”

Ripley Co-op hosted Alzheimers Bus in Dementia Awareness Week as is a member of the alliance and is a trial branch to roll out dementia friendly initiatives throughout all central England co-op stores

b) Making Space have worked with Intu Centre Derby and local Dementia Champions – to provide Dementia Awareness to all members of in house staff.

Making Space in partnership with local Women’s Institute have organised Dementia Friend briefings for their members. Derby Heights making residents more aware of dementia issues through joint activity. Leyland’s musical memories and DF sessions community, more accepting /supporting and families. Intergenerational family days.. Greenwich Gardens – DF session residents and staff.

Timms Solicitors are running regular monthly Dementia Friend briefings and working with wide range of local partners to provide sessions for local people and organisations.

c) Initial Discussion with Wickes, Glossop for Dementia Friends sessions with staff and interest in becoming dementia friendly

d) Destination Chesterfield - Presentation at Chesterfield Champions event on

Dementia Friendly Activity and Dementia Friends Session.

Promotion of Dementia Friend Sessions and other activity of the Chesterfield Dementia Action Alliance through Destination Chesterfield’s mechanisms

Careline - A stand in the pavements shopping area and Morrisons Staveley using banners that contain historical reminiscence images that has stimulated discussion

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Alzheimers Society Ripley Co-op Helen.aldridge@alzheimers.org.uk Amy Brewster Lauren Curry Wendy Blunt

with people living with dementia and their carers.

Chesterfield DAA - Attending a Healthy High Street meeting in October to talk to town centre businesses (Marks and Spencers, Wilkinsons and Boots etc) on becoming dementia friendly and also about delivering DF information sessions to their staff.

Attending Destination Chesterfield Breakfast Seminar on 28th September to talk to local businesses (up to 80 different business from Chesterfield) about becoming dementia friendly and delivering DF information sessions to their staff.

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Children, young people and students

a) The University of Derby Online Learning Department are running the Dementia MOOC 2/3 times per year

b) VOYAGE 7 project continuing in Heanor involving joint activities between young

people from the Blend Youth Project and people with dementia at Florence Shipley Care Home.

c) Alvaston Primary School year one students have worked with Making Space to

become ‘dementia ambassadors’ for their school during Dementia Awareness Week. During the DAW they visited the Council House and were joined by the mayor to ‘officially’ open DAW for Derby City Council. A junior DF’s session is arranged for in the fall for year one children

Had stand at event for One million hands scouts project . Making Space hosted placements for Derby University students. The students assisted with raising awareness of dementia in the community and shared their experiences with students and tutors at university to raise awareness of dementia. YMCA and Making Space arranged sessions to support catering apprentices to be aware of dementia issues when preparing menus and considering how to present food when catering for people with dementia.

d) Chesterfield DAA - We will be writing to all schools in Chesterfield to see if we can go in to deliver Dementia Friends Information Sessions to their pupils. We have delivered a DF Information Session to a local Beavers Group.

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Pauline Green P.Green1@derby.ac.uk First Taste Blend Trevor.Gee@derbyshire.gov.uk Amy Brewster Wendy Blunt

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Community, voluntary,

faith groups and

organisations

a) Dave Roberts working with Paul Reed (university), Wendy Burton (Making Space) and the Julie Hill (DEEP Chair) to hand over representation of people living with dementia from the Dementia Action Forum (DAF) to the Derby DEEP group following the closure of DAF. The DAF project wish list, priorities, and meetings where representation is important already discussed. DR now awaits outcomes of DEEP discussions to determine future involvement needs.

b) Dementia Friendly High Street Event held in Alfreton as part of Dementia Awareness

Week. Number of partners involved including Alzheimers Soc, Making Space, Amber Valley Borough Council and PFP Leisure.

Construction work due to start and be completed before the end of the year on Dementia Friendly Garden area in Severn Square. Alfreton’s Party in the Park 3rd Sept will see the Alzheimer’s Community Roadshow bus attending the event. Alfreton Town Council will feature an article about dementia / dementia awareness in each issue distributed to every household.

d) Making Space have worked with Derby Hospital Trust to arrange BME Dementia Q&A’s in partnership. The sessions raised awareness of dementia with the families of people with dementia and people in the community.

Making Space assisted Creative Carers by arranging with local business to make a donation to make their lunches more dementia friendly. The donation provided free dementia friendly crockery, utensils to develop their kitchen. Making Space worked with a local business, Brun Farm, to develop respite sessions at the farm free of charge. They provided Dementia Friend briefings to staff and volunteers, and other advice to develop an additional independent Dementia Friendly support service. SEWA, ladies go to their own GP surgeries, talking to receptionists and GP’s to promote SEWA and other local support. To support raising awareness of dementia in the community the group assist with translation at meetings and local events. Making Space have worked with ‘Dementia Adventure’, ‘Mind 4 You’ and ‘Let’s Keep active’ supporting these local businesses/organisations to become more dementia

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Dave Roberts and Paul Reed profdaver@ntlworld.com Amber Valley DAA Amber Valley Borough Council Alfreton Town Council Alzheimers Society Making Space helen.aldridge@alzheimers.org.uk Amy Brewster

friendly and to assisting them to provide community activities for people with dementia. STEPS (Learning Disability activity group) and Making Space worked together to train STEPS staff and arranged for a free access for carers at leisure centres in Derby so that carers can go on their own

e) `Still Waters` independent memory café has been set up through the DAA and is well

attended.

Other community groups in the High Peak that we have established awareness with are Fairfield Older Persons Group , Chinley Community Centre Musical Memories, New Mills social group.

f) Careline - Two newly refurbished communal rooms in Newbold and Stonegravels to be opened soon and activities to be arranged via the Social inclusion officer within Housing. The furniture has been ordered using suggestions from the manufacturers about dementia friendly colours, ie lighter coloured seat and darker surround. Soft fabric.

Chesterfield Borough Council - A local church group has made “twiddle muffs” for use at the Dementia Friendly Film Screenings at the Pomegranate Theatre.

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Lauren Curry Wendy Blunt

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Fire and police

a) Work with Police and Crime Commissioner’s office, External Disability Reference Group and Vulnerable Person’s Officer to develop a strategy for progress to a Dementia Friendly Derbyshire police Force.

b) Work with Hate Crime Practitioners Group to raise awareness and reporting of hate

crime and increase awareness of victim support services.

c) Work with External Disability Reference Group to increase awareness of needs of people living with dementia and needs in common with other potentially vulnerable groups.

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d) Police launched session on Herbert Protocol e) Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service have produced and signed up to a Dementia

Friendly Charter this year and the statements outlined in this will continue to be our main focus for 2017/18. Some of this work will focus on the following:-

Continue to deliver Dementia Friend sessions within the brigade and our communities

Train and ensure our employees understand the referral pathways available to anyone that has or cares for someone with Dementia

Continue to look at ways in which we can support people with Dementia to live independently and safe from fire in their home

Promote and support Cadent Gas with their Cooker Valve Shut off Scheme

Ensure our employees know how to access support if they or their family members/friends have a diagnosis

f) Herbert Protocol promotion – (police response Partnership…. Promotion)

Fire staff supported DF’s sessions during DAW Parnterhsip…Safe & well checks -- Support at DAW – had a table - partnership - Seated exercise sessions - fire brigade offer these session (partnership)

g) Chesterfield DAA – A member delivers DF Information Sessions to fire service employees.

On going Derbyshire Police tamsyn.bell-heather.12705@derbyshire.pnn.police.uk Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service ksimcox@derbys-fire.gov.uk Amy Brewster Wendy Blunt

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Health and social care

a) Work with Derbyshire County Council on the re-launch of ‘Safe Places’ to include people living with dementia.

b) Dementia screening now undertaken with all inpatients as part of the admission process.

Making Space and Derbyshire Carers host drop-in sessions on both sites fortnightly. These services link in with the Trust Dementia Steering Group, Dementia Lead Nurse and ward based Dementia Key Workers as well as a referral system for all staff being

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Co-Chairs Sue Abdulla sue.abdulla1@nhs.net

available on the Trust intranet.

All About Me is widely used and embedded across the Trust in support of a person-centred care approach.

The Trust has both a clinical lead for Dementia and Dementia Lead Nurse.

Trust compliance with tier 1 ‘Dementia Awareness’ is currently 68%. This becomes mandatory from November 1st.

The Trust supports the new ‘Herbert Protocol’ process as well as promoting other initiatives such as the Healthy Housing Hub. The Dementia Key Workers are trained to make referrals to these services.

The Trust undertakes the annual PLACE assessment in order to inform around the environment. The Trust has an environmental lead as part of the Dementia Steering Group who has been able to negotiate specific standards around new builds and on-going environmental refurbishments.

c) Work with Financial Abuse Working Group to disseminate information about

financial abuse and scams.

d) Raising awareness through staff training and through work with patients and relatives on the ward. Planning Dementia friendly groups to include relatives and cares – providing information and links as well as informal support and social interactions.

e) Delivered Adapted Dementia Friends session to a group of adults with learning

difficulties at Parkwood Day Centre in Alfreton.

Delivered 2 Dementia Friends Sessions to DCC Adult Care staff in Erewash. Delivered Dementia Friends session to Chesterfield Borough Council employees and general public

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Co-Chairs Cat Zablocki Oker Ward Whitworth Hospital catherine.zablocki@nhs.net DCC Public Health Paul.Miles@derbyshire.gov.uk

f) CDAN

Promoting scie resources Df everyday in Council house

Derby City Customer Services have arranged for all their staff to attend Dementia Friend briefings so that they have more awareness of the problems arising from this condition and improve the way that they support people living with dementia who call, or visit the Council. Derby City Council’s Shared Lives project has successfully attracted funding to develop a “Shared Lives plus project”. This project provides a dementia friendly respite and/or permanent living option for people with dementia to remain in their community. Shared Lives Carers are trained to support people with dementia who may live in, or get respite the Carer’s home. The project raises awareness of dementia with Shared Lives Carers and others as part of promoting positive living with dementia.

Closer partnership between health and social care across City and County, as evidenced in the joint commissioning of the Dementia Support Services across City and County by City and County Council and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Groups

g) Derby Royal Hospital Trust –Have improved support for people with dementia by

establishing hospital Dementia Support Workers to work with patients on the wards. Making Space assisted by contributing to their induction and this is an example of a project that DEEP supported by providing advice on setting up the project.

h) Dementia Friendly General Practice session delivered to Goyt Valley, compromising

of GP’s, non-clinical staff and Dentists. Member S&W independent living will continue to hold awareness raising events each year as part of their actions.

i) Linked in with Derbyshire HCFT NHS CMHT to bridge gaps and identify community

working in health care, developing pathways and resource opportunities.

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Ian Chennery Amy Brewster Lauren Curry Wendy Blunt

9 of the 10 Chesterfield general practices have had Dementia Friends Information sessions for their staff and clinicians. These have been very well received and there is continuing interest from some Practices to undertake more work on becoming ‘dementia friendly’. The Avenue/Hasland partnership practice have committed fully to working through the Dementia Friendly Practice workbook and demonstrating that this work is both feasible and meritorious. It is hoped the work will encourage other Practices to undertake the work. The work load burden on the Practice is much reduced by its partnership working with its PPG [patient participation group] which is undertaking several areas of the work. The Practice is exploring how to maximise publicity for Dementia Friends Information sessions which it is offering to all patients and families. The first of these is to be held in September and the innovative advertising includes; an invite on all prescriptions leaving the surgery, a Facebook page, a display on the PPG notice board in the waiting room and on the tv screen, flyers for the meeting to be distributed at reception/with doctors, practice and district nurses, matron, local pharmacy, PPG members, update the Practice web site with information and an invite, the Alzheimers site and CDAA sites. The emphasis is to encourage the practice population to embrace Dementia Friends and the PPG is leading so the work is ‘bottom up’ and not ‘top down’ from the Practice.

DCHS and specifically the older peoples mental health day hospitals - Have more dementia friends champions within our day hospital service and continue to increase this. Now have a dementia friends session within the Living well programme which are 7 week education & support groups for patients & carers that are held both within the day hospital at Walton, Bolsover and New Holme and also within in locality settings at Staveley, Dronfield , Clay Cross, Alfreton, and soon to start in Buxton

Careline - A meeting with brokerage service planned 5/9/17 to discuss what can be offered locally to meet the needs of people living with dementia and their carers. Continue to work with social care in arranging Telecare packages using technology to assist in maintaining independence at home for as long as possible.

Chesterfield DAA will be linking with the Derby University Campus based in Chesterfield to see if there is scope for DF information sessions to be undertaken by the nursing students.

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a) Recently released Dementia Housing Charter is with the Amber Valley Borough Council Housing team to address how they can incorporate this into their work.

b) Making Space have worked with extra care providers Housing and Care 21, Retail Trust, Derby Homes and Sanctuary Housing to provide Dementia Friend briefings for staff and residents to assist these schemes to be more dementia friendly.

c) Careline - Attendance at the Telecare conference October 16th to 18th to look at new

technology that might be suitable for people living with dementia and their carers. Email sent to Careline response staff to attend dementia friends training.

Ongoing Amber Valley Borough Council Amy Brewster Wendy Blunt

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Transport

a) Work with Police and Crime Commissioner’s Operation Routemaster group to engage bus companies, taxis, Trade Unions, County and City Councils in dementia friendly transport.

b) National standards for taxi driver licencing will be covering disability awareness,

locally Amber Valley Borough Council committing to delivery of Dementia Friends to new licence holders. Enforcement officers are in place to spot check licence holders.

c) Making Space has worked with a Taxi Firm, to make 30 drivers Dementia Friends. In

negotiation with East Midlands trains – attending their conference and facilitating a DFs session to 40 senior management.

d) Environmental access audit completed with `Friends of Buxton Station”, findings

presented to management. Rail Safety Week taking place in October is focusing on diversity and inclusion, `Friends of Buxton Station` hope to raise dementia awareness during this week and address transport needs of those living with dementia. Discussions under way with Buxton Town Team’s committee on Active and Sustainable transport to support the work due to take place on Buxton on the move.

e) Chesterfield DAA - We will be working with local transport provider Stagecoach to

see if we can deliver DF Information Sessions to staff.

Also working with Chesterfield Borough Council’s Licensing Team to see if we can deliver Information Sessions with the taxi drivers.

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Co-Chairs Amber Valley Borough Council Amy Brewster Lauren Curry Wendy Blunt

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Other

a) The DFC accelerator site project will from July to December 2017 see direct contact with the following 6 areas to encourage dementia friends and membership of the DAA; Youth Engagement, Transport, Community Groups, Dentists, Sporting Clubs, Local businesses.

Derbyshire NCS (National Citizens Service) has committed in their summer programme to deliver DF sessions to all attendees (a possible 600 attendees many of whom will reside in Amber Valley)

The Amber Valley Discussion Group – (people with dementia sharing their views of DFC to inspire and influence change) has its final meeting on Thursday 6th July a summary of the 4 sessions will be circulated around members, the group will be approached about linking themselves to the DAA to be the voice of people living with dementia in Amber Valley. Facebook page established and updated from Amber Valley DAA

b) Impressive partnership working locally between statutory, voluntary and private sector, across Derby and Derbyshire as evidenced by the coordination that took place in arranging and promoting Dementia Action Week with coordinated programmes across City and County with activities and contributions from all sectors.

A commitment to actively improve the way that Derby City Council delivers services that support older people and people with dementia alongside support for the Dementia Friends initiative have been included within the Council’s Equality, dignity and Respect Policy 2017-2020

c) Destination Chesterfield - Promotion of positive stories for Chesterfield relating to dementia friendly activity through Destination Chesterfield’s marketing activity. All Destination Chesterfield staff to become Dementia Friends (2 completed online – one to become at session in September with Chesterfield champions).

Chesterfield DAA - Developing a dementia friendly “one stop shop” directory for Chesterfield which will include all dementia provision for Chesterfield.

Ongoing Amber Valley DAA Alzheimer’s Society DCC Public Health Ian Chennery