The VIPS model and the Importance of Life Story Work- Prof Dawn Brooker
Posted: 10th July 2010
Professor Dawn Brooker qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1984. She has worked in a variety of clinical, academic and managerial posts in services for older people for over twenty-five years. She was influenced by the late Professor Tom Kitwood in his work on personhood and malignant social psychology....
Understanding the meaning behind behaviour: from stories of people with dementia- Graham Stokes
Posted: 10th July 2010
Understanding behaviours in dementia that challenge professional and family carers is never easy. However, over recent years we have achieved fresh insights by focusing not only on disease, but on the person with dementia, their life history and the quality of their lives, and consequently we appreciate that wandering,...
Help spread the work on facebook and social media sites
Posted: 10th July 2010
You can now help spread awareness of the network via your facebook profile and via a huge number of social bookmarks. You will notice we have added a 'share' button to every page on the site this weekend. Any content you want to flag up can be shared across...
Memory Apps- ipad project; New touch screen technology opens up a new world of opportunities for people for memory difficulties.
Posted: 6th July 2010
New touch screen technology opens up a new world of opportunities for people for memory difficulties.
Lifes a journey; Save Every Step. New website brings old memories to life
Posted: 5th July 2010
For my dad, now 75, it was following the milkman's horse with a shovel; for me, it was the Bay City Rollers and fishing for crabs in rock-pools; for my 10 year old son it will probably be MP3s and pocket video games. Everyone has them, those precious little...