Creative Spaces - dementia and environment

News, links and updates

• 04.02.2010 Dementia 'losing out' to cancer in funding stakes - Dementia now costs the UK economy twice as much as cancer but gets a fraction of the funding to find causes and cures.
• 14.01.2010 Design and the National Dementia Strategy - two articles from the BBC
• 25.11.2009 'When the drugs don't work' - a recent report on the use of anti-psychotic "chemical restraints" on dementia sufferers reveals that up to 144,000 people are being given the drugs unnecessarily.
• 22.08.2009 Dementia, Community and Environment seminar report (Word 791k) - the Sensory Trust held a one-day conference at the Eden Project to discuss and share possible solutions to the issues that prevent older people with dementia from having a better quality of life through greater access to outdoor environments. Although there is an awareness that outdoor environments are of benefit to people’s health, providing supportive environments for positive health and well-being is still not seen as a high priority.  The conference was an opportunity to begin a dialogue about the benefits of access to green spaces for older people with dementia and to share knowledge and examples from professionals involved in improving the quality of life and social environments for people with dementia. Professionals from the UK and USA presented talks that highlighted examples of projects that involved people in having greater access to their local environment leading to an increase in social interaction with others in their community.
• 14.03.2009 National Dementia Strategy - the National Dementia Strategy sets out 17 objectives for improving the lives and care of people with dementia over the next five years. What do we think, and does it mention outdoor environments?

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