Jean Tottie, Chair of the LSN, responds to the Panorama programme
Posted: 26th April 2012
Jean Tottie, Chair of the LSN, responded to the Panorama programme on 23 May in an interview for Publicsector.net
Evaluation aimed to assess the effectiveness and impact of the use of touchscreen technology on the day-to-day lives of people with dementia and the staff engaged in their care.
Posted: 10th February 2012
Two Thirds of NHS Staff say they are lacking the skills to care for people with dementia
Posted: 16th December 2011
Plans for greater scrutiny of elderly care in England
Posted: 12th December 2011
Plans to "radically drive up" standards of social care in England to protect the elderly have been unveiled by the government.
Pilot sessions of Your Story Matters Training get a big thumbs up
Posted: 28th November 2011
2 pilot sessions of the one day introductory course have been run with staff in two care homes, evaluations are now in.
Congratulations to Manchester City Council
Posted: 25th November 2011
LSN joins the Dementia Action Alliance
Posted: 25th November 2011
The organisations signed up to this Declaration call on all families, communities and organisations to work with us to transform quality of life for the millions of people affected by dementia.
Your Story Matters Film production
Posted: 25th November 2011
Home care often fails to meet older people’s basic human rights, says inquiry
Posted: 23rd November 2011
The final report of the Commission’s inquiry, 'Close to home: older people and human rights in home care', says hundreds of thousands [1] of older people lack protection under the Human Rights Act and calls for this legal loophole to be closed. It questions commissioning practices that focus on a rigid list of tasks, rather than what older people actually want, and that give more weight to cost than to an acceptable quality of care.
Your Story Matters Training - What is a VLE?
Posted: 14th November 2011
Life Story Network directors spent Friday locked away in a secret location (not really) working on the content of the Your Story Matters online content