Dementia: innovative approaches towards a better quality of life

Details: Please contact h.haigh@sheffield.ac.uk if you do not receive a confirmation email once registered

This workshop will bring together national and international researchers, practitioners working in dementia care and people with dementia and their carers.  During the day we will hear about the needs of people with dementia and their carers and about exciting research which is considering how needs might be met through technology and engineering.  There will be opportunity during the day for networking, discussion and debate.

The workshop is aimed at a wide range of practitioners and policy makers, health and social care practitioners, employers, charitable and government bodies concerned with the needs of older and disabled people, as well as researchers and academics  from engineering, biological, social science, medical and health care disciplines.

Please follow the links for the provisional programme and directions to the venue.

Presentations

Judith Torrington - The design of support settings for people with dementia

Claire Craig - Using technology in creative ways with people with dementia

Rupert McShane - The Alzheimer’s Safe Return Programme

Hazel Boyd - inTouch: social inclusion and dementia care technology work

Mark Donnelly - Supporting people with dementia using pervasive health technologies

Jayne Wallace - Designing for Personhood in dementia

Lynne Mitchell - Meeting needs through the design of the built environment