With less than one month to go until the Responding to Dementia: Inclusion for All conference for those planning for and providing BME dementia care the workshops have been announced. Covering a wide spectrum of different BME experiences, you can select your preferred workshops while booking via the Eventbrite page. If you have already booked your place without selecting your preferred workshops email Michael with your first and second preferences for both sessions.
Morning Session:
1) Black Health Initiative: Lest we forget – Listening talking walking with Dementia
2) Dementia Friendly Gurudwaras: Breaking Barriers, Tackling Stigma and Raising Awareness within the Punjabi Sikh Community.
3) LeedsGate Travellers: Dementia on the margins
4) Chinese National Healthy Living Community: Chinese Dementia Awareness and Support Project
Afternoon Session:
1) Irwin Mitchell LLP: ‘Planning for Incapacity’ – Wills – General – Use of Trusts – LPA’s – Court of Protection
2) Moyra Riseborough: What you and I CAN do to create dementia friendly organisations and places to live or work
3) Yecco: The value of social media technology for people with dementia and their carers
4) Getting your activities funded: Funding for small, community–based projects