{"id":305,"date":"2017-06-12T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/jrustedlab\/?p=305"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:28:54","slug":"dementia-action-alliance-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/jrustedlab\/2017\/06\/12\/dementia-action-alliance-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Action Alliance Launch Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DAA<\/p>\n

(from left to right) Professor Louise Serpell (Joint AS DTC lead, Life Sciences), Rachel Clarke (PhD student: Psychology, Social Policy), Rebecca Atkinson (PhD student: Alzheimer\u2019s Society Doctoral Training Centre), Dr Karen Marshall (Research Fellow, Life Sciences).<\/em><\/p>\n

We recently attended the launch event of the Brighton chapter of the Dementia Action Alliance. The Dementia Action Alliance brings together people working on or with dementia, people living with dementia, and those that care for people living with dementia. Their actions facilitate information sharing, and aim to improve the lives of people affected by dementia.<\/p>\n

The event featured many interesting talks, helping to raise awareness of local work to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia, and allowed us to discuss some of the research activities ongoing at the University of Sussex with a network of interested individuals. It was great to mingle with many different people working on or with dementia; researchers, charities, businesses offering support services, and of course individuals directly affected by dementia, their families, and carers.<\/p>\n

Among the many interesting talks, there was a Dementia Friends training and awareness session. Dementia Friends is a wonderful program run by the Alzheimer\u2019s Society, aiming to change people\u2019s perceptions of dementia. We were so impressed by the training that Professor Serpell arranged for a Dementia Friends session to be held at the University of Sussex, for staff and students.<\/p>\n

The key objectives set out by Brighton and Hove\u00a0Dementia Action Alliance are:<\/p>\n

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  1. To work in\u00a0partnership together with businesses, the local authority, the voluntary sector and most importantly with people living with dementia so\u00a0Brighton and Hove achieves recognition as a Dementia Friendly Community. The DAA coordinator will support and encourage organisations to submit action plans to demonstrate how they will become more dementia friendly.<\/li>\n
  2. Through specific\u00a0local\u00a0named providers (The Trust for Developing Communities; Engage and Create; local Dementia Champions), to ensure that \u00a0Dementia Awareness is raised significantly within Brighton and Hove.<\/li>\n
  3. By setting up new local forums, for example with Brighton\u00a0Carers\u00a0Centre, and others to ensure sustainability is built into the\u00a0local\u00a0DAA service model. Links will also be made with local Dementia\u00a0Caf\u00e9s, the Age Friendly City forum and other dementia friendly community groups<\/li>\n
  4. Be committed to \u00a0increasing the\u00a0\u00a0health and wellbeing of people with dementia and their carers in Brighton and Hove by looking at local physical activity\u00a0programmes, for\u00a0example dementia friendly gardening.<\/li>\n
  5. To\u00a0address\u00a0and reduce social isolation of people with dementia and their\u00a0carers<\/li>\n
  6. To ensure that people with dementia and their\u00a0carers\u00a0experience significant improvements in their experience of living in Brighton and Hove<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    More information on the Brighton and Hove\u00a0Dementia Action Alliance\u00a0can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    (from left to right) Professor Louise Serpell (Joint AS DTC lead, Life Sciences), Rachel Clarke (PhD student: Psychology, Social Policy), Rebecca Atkinson (PhD student: Alzheimer\u2019s Society Doctoral Training Centre), Dr Karen Marshall (Research Fellow, Life Sciences). We recently attended the…<\/span><\/p>\n

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