Posted by thinkpublic on February 6th, 2008
The BBC Politics Show (South) on Sunday featured a live debate on the future of dementia services.
The experiences discussed on the show are very similar to ones we heard during the Alzheimer100 project. The TV show was filmed at a day centre in Portsmouth and it was encouraging to see many of the issues we have been working on over the past year highlighted on a national show such as this.
Posted by thinkpublic on October 22nd, 2007
The key difference between Dott07 and other design events is the focus on conversations, this has been evident throughout the event not only in the space but during the specific focus days for Food, Schools, Movement, Health and Energy.
Last Friday (19th) was the turn of health, with the Alzheimer100 event taking place in the afternoon, attending the event were many of the people involved in the project from carers to Alzheimer’s Society members to people with dementia. The event also provided a chance to tell lots of other people about the project who had come along to find out more.
Allister Balls, chairman of the Alzheimer’s Society started things off and was followed by Professor Jim Edwardson who spoke about how the project came about and Dr Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer’s Society who added her scientific experience to proceedings.
From thinkpublic, Deborah Szebeko spoke about the process the team have gone through in running the project, telling stories we have captured from people we have met and explaining how this co-design process has worked. As well as the challenges and learnings from working in this way.
Ian Drysdale spoke about some of the design opportunities that have arisen from working with other groups such as TimeBank and Equal Arts.
Ivo Gormley presented the final outcome of the project, the Dementia Signposting Service and invited feedback on this through the display in the festival space.
To finish the talks Deborah showed a short film containing people’s experiences of being involved in Alzheimer100 and how they have found using design to improve the journey through dementia.
Posted by thinkpublic on October 17th, 2007
Alzheimer100 were highly commended for the People’s Voice Award last night at the launch of the Designs Of The Times 07 festival in Newcastle Gateshead. Our work with people with dementia in the North East over the past year has resulted in four projects including the Dementia Signposting Service that people can added their though and ideas on at the dott07 festival. Along with designs for a safe wandering garden developed with a local artist and Shadon House care home.
All of this work is represented in the Dott 07 festival on the Quayside. Other exciting projects included the Urban Farming project that won the creative community award and Low Carb Lane which looked at design solutions to reducing carbon emissions.
Posted by thinkpublic on October 15th, 2007
The Alzheimer100 space has been installed and is ready for opening tomorrow, the photos in the slideshow above are of todays preperations.
The space has been designed around the theme of a high-street with an Alzheimer superstore, dementia cafe and equal arts shop. There is a news stand detailing everything that has happeed in the project, life size characters and stories of people’s journeys through dementia, an illustrated lightbox map of all sevices across the North East as well as a prototype signposting service map and mentoring scheme film. The space also includes a film of the project process, highlighting how the co-design process has been used and the leading role service users and providers have had in the project.
The Alzheimer100 team will be hosting a ‘Health Day’ on Friday 19th October, this will feature a number of talks and debates and looks set to be a really exciting day.
Click here to book please onto Dott Debates
The festival opens on Tuesday 16th October at 10am and runs until Sunday 28th, entry is free.
Posted by thinkpublic on September 26th, 2007
Posted by thinkpublic on September 5th, 2007
Posted by thinkpublic on August 29th, 2007
During the Alzheimer100 project we have worked with people with dementia and their carers to map services and places that they use in their communities across the North East. The map has been illustrated to show how people have a personal journey through dementia and use wide range of sevices, depending on their needs.
This map will be shown as a giant light box at the Dott festival and will accompany four ‘characters’ built around the stories people have told us about their experiences of living with dementia. The image above shows how Bill’s story would be shown when the services he has come into contact with light up.
Posted by thinkpublic on May 18th, 2007
The five ideas which received the most votes on the day are:
The Chain Gang
Improving day care and drop in centres
The AT-Enablers
Working on assistive technology and communication
BEST Team
Better support and mentoring at diagnosis and in the early stages
Marauders
Encouraging Mental Stimulation
Not Good Enough
Improving residential care homes
If you would like to join one of the team please contact hello@alzheimer.co.uk
Posted by thinkpublic on May 18th, 2007
Lots of people, hundreds of ideas, plenty of enthusiasm all contributed to one of our most productive and creative days yet as people across the North east came together to decide upon what ideas they wanted to take forward to the next stage of the project – creation.
The setting for the day was the culture Lab in Newcastle, a light and vibrant venue, a perfect setting for what we wanted to achieve.
The Alzheimer100 team arrived early in the morning to transform a huge empty room into a market place environment, perfect to get everyone’s creative juices flowing. There were six stalls each representing a different stage of dementia, each displaying an array of creative ideas for people to chose the one they felt would be most beneficial to the lives of people living with dementia in the North east.
Posted by admin on March 20th, 2007
Today Ivo and I went to meet and hear the stories of two people who are involved in supporting and delivering services to people with dementia and their carers in the North East. They were Dr Louise Robinson, who works as GP in Newcastle , and also does research at the University of Newcastle, and Rani Svanberg, Chief Executive of the Dementia Care Partnership.
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