AGEING & DEMENTIA SEMINAR SERIES 2010
Guest Speaker Seminar (hosted by SPARC and Lid)

Guest Speaker:  

Professor Murna Downs, Chair in Dementia Studies and Head of Bradford Dementia Group, Bradford University

Topic:  “Memory Clinics – for Whom, for What”? 
Date: 7th May, 2010
Time:  12.30 pm to 14.30 pm

Outline:  A key aim of the Department of Health’s National Dementia strategy for England is to ensure people live well with dementia. Early diagnosis and support is one of its three priorities. A recommended route to early diagnosis and effective intervention is through referral to memory services.  Memory services come in all shapes and sizes but have in common their remit to provide timely and effective diagnosis and support. Landmark research suggests that they are effective in improving quality of life for people with dementia and their families. Despite these promising findings, little attempt has been made to examine what it is like to attend memory services, from the perspective of people with memory problems and their family members.  In this presentation I will provide an overview of the experience of people with memory problems and their family carers who attend memory services in the north east of England. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the implications of this research for policy and practice.

To book a place, please contact Caroline Forsyth at 353 (1) 896 2914 or email: forsytc@tcd.ie

 http://www.socialwork-socialpolicy.tcd.ie/livingwithdementia/forthcoming/