We at the Scottish Dementia Working Group (SDWG) are pleased to be asked to ... Alongside colleagues from Alzheimer Scotland and the Scottish Dementia Working Group (SDWG), the National Dementia Carers Action Network (NDCAN) has been Henry Simmons Alzheimer Scotland "Improving access to personalised support, so that people with dementia and their families can have genuine choice and control, is the key to achieving the best possible outcome from both state and personal resources. © 2016 The Dementia Society. Indeed, today’s #SDCRN conference, the fourth annual of its kind, for the SCDRN, gave Henry Simmons, CEO of Alzheimer Scotland , a chance to recapitulate on the importance of the G8 Dementia Summit, held last year in London in 2013. He is a registered Social Worker, RMN and has an MBA. Henry Simmons, Chief Executive of Alzheimer Scotland, added: “Alzheimer Scotland are extremely grateful and proud for all that has been achieved by Football Memories Scotland, to help people living with dementia. He is a registered Social Worker, RMN and has an MBA.Henry has over 20 years experience in the health and social care sector and has spent the majority of his career in the voluntary sector, primarily involved in developing new community-based person-centred services.Henry has worked in both the learning disability and mental health fields. Caroline was very involved with her husband’s care both in hospital and the care home and was successful in having improvements made in the care home to the benefit of those with dementia.She is also an original member of the Post Diagnostic Support Group for Stirling, Clacks and Falkirk and also on both the International and the Operations Audit Committees.For all of Caroline’s adult life she has been a volunteer for several organisations and was the Chair of the Council for Voluntary Service in Clackmannanshire.
... Alzheimer Scotland’s priority is ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of the people we support, and our staff and volunteers. The work we do in Public Policy is meaningless unless it has a positive impact on those living with dementia. He is a registered Social Worker, RMN and has an MBA.
Her late father suffered from vascular dementia for several years and her mother now also has the same condition. The newly refurbished centre will continue to serve as a community hub. #lolBut as a Cambridge graduate himself, Prof Starr was a real delight to talk with over coffee; as a Chair in Edinburgh, he knows well some of my friends, and indeed knows Prof John Hodges who kindly wrote my Foreword. This will include day services and community group activities and unfortunately many of these groups will need to be cancelled. Results are in ahead of World Alzheimer Day from the largest survey regarding the attitudes about dementia. While working with NES she successfully led on the delivery of a wide range of projects and programmes of work to support workforce development and capacity building on a Scotland- wide basis. She has presented widely on education and technology topics nationally and internationally recently an invited speaker at the European Commission on digital health care.Patricia is a registered nurse with over 30 years’ experience of working in NHS Scotland and has always been passionate about improving the experience and outcomes for people with dementia and their families and carers. Henry Simmons joined Alzheimer Scotland as Chief Executive in August 2008, prior to this he worked as an Executive Director with ENABLE Scotland. Professionally, Tracey is a specialist at Scottish Enterprise where her role involves working with innovative Scottish technology companies, helping them partners and funding in the UK and Europe. She is the only Honorary Fellow of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education in Scotland, one of only a few Principal Fellows of the Higher Education Academy as well as a Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technology.
Chief Executive, Alzheimer Scotland . No.Simmons remarked upon how there were somehow 88000 people involved with people living with dementia in Scotland, including carers and families.I mooted over the lunch break with Dr Peter Connolly, Co-director of #SDCRN, that at least carers of people with dementia at least now ‘had a voice’.
I still have concerns about the word ‘care’ as it implies some sort of transaction potentially, and I prefer the notion of ‘shared care’ of people with dementia being at the heart of decisions when they legally have the capacity to do so.Critical to this is the “dementia practice coordinator” in the “Simmons made quite a big thrust of his thesis that we need highly quality research to inform on integrated care (between health and social care systems), and implied that the current systems were a long way from that.