Hartley Village Dementia Friendly Community
Listen to KCC Warden Jackie West and Local Resident Veronca McGannon talk about making Hartley dementia friendly . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-irRLw-YzXk...
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Older person engagement report
Earlier this year the Dementia Friendly Communities team were tasked with a piece of work which would contribute to future commissioning of older persons services within Kent Your Life Your Wellbeing Kent County...
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Innovation Grant 2017
Below are the details of the Dementia Friendly Communities 2017 Innovation Fund The minimum project funded is £500 and the maximum is £2,000 and can only be funded up to 50% of the total cost of a project and the...
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I am still me – Book of poems by Tracey Shorthouse
I Am Still Me is a collection of poems written by the author as a way to encourage people that even though someone has a condition, they can still do things. Although there are some poems about dementia, the book...
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Shepway Dementia Awareness Conference
On Saturday 14th January, Shepway District Council and Kent County Council co-hosted a Dementia Awareness Conference. Below is a short video report, produced by 105.9 Academy FM Folkestone: Read the full "Academy...
Read MoreFaversham DAA “Ask the Experts” day
On Friday 25th November 2016, the Faversham Dementia Action Alliance held a very successful “Ask The Experts” event. It was open to anyone, whether directly or indirectly affected by dementia. Professor Paul...
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Deal Taxi Project
Dementia friendly Deal took another positive step forwards at the beginning of this year to spread better awareness of dementia within the town through their information sessions, with Direct Cars becoming the first ...
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Deal Dementia Awareness day: Celebrate my story
Celebrate my story On Saturday 21st May, the Deal Centre opened its doors and encouraged the community to come together to become more dementia aware by spending time together and sharing their stories. The idea of...
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Dementia Friendly recognition symbol
As part of our work to make Kent more ‘Dementia Friendly ‘ we have been looking at the recommendations from the recent British Standards ‘Best Practice’ guidelines (PAS1365) for building ‘Dementia Friendly...
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Sittingbourne SMILE’s again for 2016
For the second year running The Forum welcomed organisations from the Sittingbourne Dementia Friendly Community into the shopping mall Throughout the day there were FREE Workshops, music, art displays, talks and...
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