Conference sessions

Session 1: Dementia training and education

Session 2: Innovations in residential care

Session 3: Sport and dementia

Debate: Insights into dementia care and challenges across Europe with representatives from the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, UK, and Portugal

Academic Keynote speaker

Prof Gill Windle is a gerontologist who specialises in interdisciplinary research. She is the Director of DSDC Wales and Director of Research Impact and Engagement for the School of Health Sciences at Bangor University. Gill’s research aims to improve the health, wellbeing and resilience of older people, people with dementia and their supporters, and improve care and service provision

Title: Co-produced innovations for people living with dementia and their unpaid carers.

My presentation will highlight some of the research led by Dementia Services Development Centre, Bangor University that is aiming to transform post-diagnostic support by generating new, co-produced innovations for people living with dementia and their unpaid carers, including young carers. I will talk about our research that inspired the production of ‘Knowledge is Power’ designed by, and for people with dementia, aimed at reducing the provision of overwhelming amounts of information given at diagnosis in Wales into one resource. I will discuss how we uncovered the challenges faced by young dementia carers, raised their profile and co-produced a new resource – iSupport for Young People – specifically designed with and for their needs which is now being promoted across the UK.

Full Conference Agenda

9.00 Registration and networking
9.30 Conference welcome – Dr Clarissa Giebel
9.40 Keynote Speaker 1: Prof Gill Windle
10.10 Session 1: Dementia training and education (Chair: Prof Mark Gabbay)
“Building global capacity for dementia awareness and advocacy: Walking the talk for dementia” Prof Kate Irving, Dublin City University, Ireland
“The International Primary Progressive Aphasia Awareness Campaign” Dr Anna Volkmer, UCL
“Dementia-related stigma, help-seeking and social health: Insights from Italy and the UK” Marco Brigiano, University of Bologna, Italy
“Investing in dementia education for occupational therapy students” Sarah Page, MMU

11.15 Refreshments, stalls and posters
11.45 Panel debate: Insights into dementia care and challenges across Europe (UK, Norway, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands) (Chair: Ruth Eley)

12.30 Lunch, stalls and posters
13.30 Session 2: Innovations in residential care (Chair: Clarissa Giebel)
“People living with dementia in long-term care facilities: an exploratory study in Portugal” Dr Flavia Machado, University of Aveiro, Portugal
“Reframing wandering in care homes: how do staff balance safety and independence to support well-being of residents with dementia?” Dr Bryony Waters-Harvey, University of Sheffield
“National Implementation of the Continuity of Carer-Supporting Engagement Program in Residential Aged Care: An Implementation Science and Socio-Ecological Approach” Dr Marta Woolford, Monash University, Australia
“How innovative care environments shape family caregiver involvement in dementia care” Dr Louise Mayer, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
“The real-time experiences of the care triad during the transition from home to a nursing home: patient journey mapping methodology” Lindsay Groenvynck, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

15.00 Refreshments, stalls and posters
15.30 Session 3: Sport and dementia (Chair: Dr Laura Prato)
“A study mapping the areas and networks of support for athletes during and after a diagnosis of young-onset dementia” Thomas Faulkner, University of Liverpool
“The power of football and reaching more communities for better dementia support” Dr Nicky Taylor, Newcastle University
16.00 In conversation: Discussing caring journeys in dementia with carer Meryl Brayford-Cuzak (Host: Emma Williams)
16.30 Best Poster Price Award & Raffle Winners
16.40 Wrap Up and next conference
16.45 Close