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