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January 2010

Gentle reader,

Welcome to Making Sense 17, the newsletter of the Sensory Trust. The big news is the beginning of two major new projects, one focusing on care environments for older people with dementia, the other on reconnecting people with the environment through farming and food production.

Creative Spaces – dementia and environment

The Creative Spaces project creates opportunities for older people with dementia to improve their environments, strengthen their communities and play a more active part in society.

Let Nature Feed Your Senses

In partnership with LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) this three and a half year project will involve a new and exciting programme of activities and events throughout England, aimed at getting young people, disabled groups and older people out onto farms, nature reserves, education centres and city farms, to experience nature and the countryside in their everyday lives.

When the Drugs don’t Work

A recent review ordered by the Department of Health in the UK on the use of anti-psychotic drugs on dementia sufferers states that as many as 144,000 people are being given the drugs unnecessarily causing an estimated 1,800 deaths each year. Could better care home environments help turn round this appalling state of affairs? We think so.

Useful information

Sensory Trust has published a series of useful booklets and information sheets to help make environments more accessible. Subjects covered include aspects of physical access such as steps, seating and shelter and paths. Also covered is advice on accessible information and community engagement. And they’re all free to download. Enjoy.

A Sense of Place

And just to recap from earlier last year, if you missed the Sense of Place event in September there is now a report online to read, plus accompanying videos.

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