Practical Resources
Traditionally, Dementia Friendly Keighley used resources within their group activities to help engage with people living with dementia and create a welcoming and familiar environment. The resources would spark conversations and provide opportunities to reminisce.
As groups and activities had to stop or change format due to COVID-19, Dementia Friendly Keighley wanted to ensure that people living with dementia still had the opportunity to participate in activities in the home, receive relevant information to support families at this incredibly difficult and stressful time and use a range of communication to keep people living with dementia and partners up to date.
Each of the summaries below provide you with a brief on what we did, why we did it, outcomes, learning points and what next. If delivered in partnership, we have listed the partners and added testimonies from people who have participated, delivered or volunteered.
1. Information & Support Centre
| Information & Support Centre | |
| Aim/Situation | |
| Output | Outcome |
| Learning Points | Extra |
1. Information Sheets & Audio
| Aim & Situation | Output |
|---|---|
| Concerns over trustworthy information available for our families and ensuring they are accessible and meeting their needs. | We provided over 21 Information Sheets to help families and health professionals to get ‘bite size’ information on different aspects of dementia, both in written and audio format for our communities. |
| Outcome | |
|---|---|
The Information Sheets ensured:
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| Learning Points | What’s Next? |
|---|---|
| To keep the information sheets short and to the point Signpost to other resources if more detail is required. | To develop further resources and work with other local communities to translate appropriately. |
| Partners |
|---|
| Click here to find out more about our partnership with Meri Yaadain CIC. |
To view the ‘Caring for the Carers’ PDF, click here.
To view the ‘Caring for the Carers’ in Urdu PDF, click here.
To view the ‘Caring for the Carers’ in Bangla PDF, click here.
To see our full list of Information Sheets, click here.
Partner Testimonial
Mohammed Akhlak Rauf MBE – Founder & Director of Meri Yaadain – “I think we are bringing together the expert by experience, lived experience and a work experience to ensure your resources will offer equity to BAME people living with dementia and those caring for them.
I am convinced the resources will be a great asset and will enable a wider cohort of people to engage with DFK, access appropriate information and seek support from the expertise of DFK staff; as well as supporting DFK to offer a wider range of informational resources to service users.”
2. Videos
| Aim & Situation | Output |
|---|---|
| We wanted to use other methods of communication to promote our services and activities and to also provide general awareness. To be used on social media, but also in surgery waiting rooms and shopping centre screens. Our promotional videos needed adapting due to COVID-19. | To adapt the promotional videos to include COVID-19 messages, provide a video promoting the importance of early diagnosis and what happens at diagnosis to support our communities. |
| Outcome | |
|---|---|
The videos will:
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| Learning Points | What’s Next? |
|---|---|
| … | … |
| Partners |
|---|
| Click here to find out more about our partnership with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. |
Music & Movement Session
Social Group
Drop-in Centre
Dementia and COVID-19: Memories in Lockdown (Commissioned by CMBDC)
3. Resources
| Aim & Situation | Output |
|---|---|
| Due to lockdown and local restrictions all of our groups and activities stopped. To ensure people living with dementia still had activities to occupy them, we worked with The Memory Tree to develop and deliver home-based resources. | 40 packs were made up and delivered to suit people living with dementia and their carers. The packs reflected individual needs and were provided person centred activities. Packs included history books, reminiscence, sports, pictures, jigsaws, bingo sets, DVD’s, magazines, dominoes, quizzes, wordsearches, crosswords and aqua paints. |
| Outcome | |
|---|---|
The resource packs help to:
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| Learning Points | What’s Next? |
|---|---|
| These packs are still available, although demand is less now that groups are opening and restrictions are being lifted. Working with Care Homes to see if they would benefit for copies of their own. |
| Partners |
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| The Memory Tree supported this project and continue to deliver this service across Bradford. Click here to find out more about our partnership with The Memory Tree. |
Carer Testimonial
Pam (Carer) and John (Living with Dementia). – “We found the resources very useful for both of us. John did sometimes lose interest due to a deterioration of his dementia, but he did enjoy looking at photos of places and loved the quizzes.
I felt the resources kept John engaged and stimulated during lockdown. We used to attend the Respite and Reminiscence sessions and DFK are very good and willing to help and listen”.
Partner Testimonial
Elizabeth – The Memory Tree – “In July 2018 DFK contracted us to run the Respite & Reminiscence service (R&R) which ran every Thursday to offer carers the opportunity to have a break of up to 2.5 hours to go and do their shopping/attend appointments/just have a quiet coffee whilst we ran activities in the DFK Office for the person with dementia. Due to COVID -19 this stopped…
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Carer Testimonial
Howard – Carer of a loved one living with Dementia – “We have used the resources that Nichola has delivered to our home and we have found them enjoyable. Having the resources at home during lockdown made life easier as we has something new to do.
We could use them when we wanted, for a short time and come back to them during the day. DFK are part of our life and we enjoy their activities.”
DFK Resources Catalogue
