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My latest D4Dementia blog
Please sign this petition to stop the #stigma @KateLeeCEO people with #dementia are not dead @AlzSpks @piponthecommons @3NDWG @DementiaVoices @JulieHa59928392 @GailGre59728262 @chris40781 @chrissythelker @DementiaAllianc @AlzDisInt @jball49 @dr_shibley
Yesterday we hosted our first Sweet Pea #webinar, with #dementia campaigner Beth Britton @bethyb1886 Thank you so much to Beth for sharing her personal experience + advice for caregivers. Sign up to get access to the webinar on our Dementia Care Hub. 🧠 https://app.sweetpea.care/api/auth/login
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @bethyb1886 @KateSwaffer
Happy birthday to Peter Watt the other day.
Hello to @mason4233 too. xx
It's not often we see all four of our day club managers in the same room - a rare gathering to share the joy at winning the Markel @3rdsectorcare #dementia award last week! Worthy recognition for a wonderful team 🎉
#3rdSectorCareAwards #proudtocare
@bethyb1886
Repost @diversealz Books that address attitudes towards dementia/addressing stigma(s), what do you suggest? Let's add all creative resources!!! @creativityincare @IRememberBetter @alzchat @N_Wilson94 @bethyb1886
@angelacatley @socfuture @agewithoutlimit @sian_lockwood @WildCardWS @whosalama @BeckyMalby @DrGuddiSingh THIS!! ⬇️⬇️
#WhenIGetOld #SeeAndBeSeen
I know my #dementiachallengers friends will love this too.
🍋Are you WIGOs?🍋 @SarahReed_MHR @suzysopenheart @ZoeHarris_MCM @Crouchendtiger7 @piponthecommons @sallyknocker @bethyb1886 ?
@Dementiawho @Mikeo56977865 @bethyb1886 Thank you for sharing!
Welcoming our guests @viclyons @jaynegoodrick @DemCarersCount @gill_maidens hosted by @bethyb1886 @NicolaP321 still plenty of time to sign up to this FREE #dementia special interest group 💜
Happy Spring and thank you to all who repost, contribute and listen to #AlzChat with @IRememberBetter @creativitycare and many fab chatters including @RakheeLb @AlzJoyThruTears @helenfindlay @bethyb1886 @JulesWdr @ArtsAging ...
@bethyb1886 Thank you Beth 😊
Fantastic work @WillowKaty @WeAreCarers &
Domestic Dusters.
If only more people recognised the challenges facing
#UnpaidCarers.
#3rdSectorCareAwards
@vicrayner @RHChelsea @bethyb1886 @AdoptAGrandp @NCF_Liz @OurDemChoir @BelongVillages @NGHHammerson Great to see you and so many lovely friends Vic - a wonderful afternoon!
Final few snaps from an awesome day! Lovely to catch up with old friends and new! @RHChelsea @bethyb1886 @Crouchendtiger7 @AdoptAGrandp @NCF_Liz @OurDemChoir @BelongVillages @NGHHammerson and many more..
@alzheimerssoc With respect, this is awful - people living with dementia are not dead. Yes, it is a painful and difficult disease, but many have been working to change perception, to show that these lives have value and meaning in spite of that. This feels like such a step backwards.
🌤️ A new blog by @GridleyKate asks 'what makes life with dementia better?' Find out the ways a peer-led course helps support people living with dementia:
https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/research/spsw/good-life-with-dementia-course/goodlifewithdementiaresearchblog/
Our strapline since 2007 has been 'dementia might be life changing, but it need not be life-ending' People with dementia have justified our faith in that founding notion over and over and over again.
Why would anyone want to go through a dementia diagnosis process after watching this? And how can me make the case for investment in care and existing dementia treatments with this narrative? One thing is sugarcoating but this is denying the value of life of people with dementia
@elhijodevera from @Innov_Dementia talking about how the Good Life with #Dementia course is ‘better than toast’ - because it was designed by people with dementia for people with dementia to give hope and support ‘I CAN live with this’
‘You feel that someone has got their arms around you’ feedback about the Good Life peer led course for people with #dementia from @Innov_Dementia https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/research/spsw/good-life-with-dementia-course/
@alzheimerssoc I’m sorry to have to say this, but to call this a step backwards is a massive understatement. History tells us what happens when people are dehumanised by a narrative, and you can’t get much more dehumanised and being described as dead. What were you thinking?
To anyone emotionally affected by the awful @alzheimerssoc advert; I introduce my great Grandma, 96 years young and living with #Dementia. Yes at times she forgets and gets anxious, down, frustrated etc. But she very much lives and we haven’t ‘lost’ her. No eulogy here thanks 😊
I’m so Shocked, so Angry and deeply saddened by this campaign film.
May I make one thing clear @alzheimerssoc
I am living with Alzheimer’s and I am very much Alive!
We believe this is putting people with dementia in the realms of the already dead.
Our work is about working with people so they can live, live and live again.
Excellent opportunity for #carers/#caregivers to join this webinar.
It's hosted by @Care_SweetPea with @bethyb1886, "who will provide useful advice on how to navigate the challenges of caring for someone with #dementia and answer your questions"
Register below it's FREE!
Applications now open for our new short course “what everybody needs to know about dementia”.
Co-produced this course with people with dementia this course is for anyone whose work in the community means they come into contact with people with dementia.
🎶 Stand by me🎶 @OurDemChoir #3rdSectorCareAwards @3rdsectorcare
Amazing finalists in the Making a Difference award - as a judging team we struggled to choose. Congratulations @AdoptAGrandp Shaleeza Hasham!! #3rdSectorCareAwards @3rdsectorcare
Another really tough category to judge. Amazing #endoflife finalists & winners @StAnnsHospice. Very emotional listening to @sally_lindsay talking about her experiences with St Ann’s #3rdSectorCareAwards @3rdsectorcare
@bethyb1886 @3rdsectorcare Thank you Beth. We could not be more proud of the whole team 🥳🎉🎉
#3rdSectorCareAwards
@bethyb1886 @NurseryinBelong @BelongVillages @readygen Absolutely
Development & Innovation recognises new models of care or research to benefit those using services. Congratulations to our winner @NurseryinBelong 👏 @BelongVillages @Readygen #Intergenerational #RelationalPedagogy #3rdSectorCareAwards.
Kindly sponsored by Social Care People
@WeAreCarers @bethyb1886 @NCF_Liz @clairehenry_ So very well deserved. Thank you for sharing the project with us
@bethyb1886 @3rdsectorcare @NCF_Liz @clairehenry_ Thank you so much. Is so lovely to highlight the invisible care of unpaid carers.
Such a tough category to judge. Congratulations to all the #dementia care finalists & the winners @AlzheimersSupp #3rdSectorCareAwards @3rdsectorcare
@bethyb1886 @nmcnews @cmm_magazine @NCFCareForum @MarkelUK @NCF_Liz @vicrayner @clairehenry_ @StickyNeil Feeling was totally mutual Beth 💕
The Creative Arts Award champions using #arts to engage with vulnerable people and improve quality of life. Our winner is @WeAreCarers / Domestic Dusters Collaboration, for their community-driven, craft activism partnership giving silenced #carers a voice 👏 #3rdSectorCareAwards
Delighted to be at #3rdsectorawards
@nmcnews sponsoring Social Care Nursing award celebrating amazing contribution nurses & nursing associates make with their skill, innovation & compassion when people need it most
Congrats on 10 years!
@cmm_magazine, @NCFCareForum @MarkelUK
#Compassion is intrinsic to great care, and can be shown in many ways. This award celebrates those who go above and beyond to ensure the people they support feel safe, respected and dignified. Congratulations to our winner 🌱 Phil the Gardener @NGHHammerson 👏#3rdSectorCareAwards
Fabulous start to #3rdSectorCareAwards @3rdsectorcare from @OurDemChoir 🎤🎶
Super to be at the #3rdSectorCareAwards with so many fabulous colleagues across #socialcare. Thank you for inviting me @3rdsectorcare @jo_dovey @lisacarechoices
Thrilled to be a part of this!
We're up for the Dementia Care Award and looking forward to meeting all the amazing finalists. Good luck everyone 🤩
#3rdSectorCareAwards #socialcare
Our very own Beth Britton is a guest on a webinar next Thursday, join her as she gives practical tips for caregivers
Thursday 21st March at 1.30pm
@bethyb1886
@bethyb1886 @3rdsectorcare Have a great day Beth 💜
@bethyb1886 See you soon Beth
On my way to the @3rdsectorcare Awards! Looking forward to meeting the finalists in the categories I was a judge for and lots more fabulous #socialcare colleagues 💚 #3rdSectorCareAwards
To Wendy Mitchell
A hug in a mug
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Do you #care for a loved one with #dementia? Join us for an exclusive, free Sweet Pea Care #webinar with Dementia Author and Campaigner, Beth Britton 💚, on how to navigate #dementiacare challenges. Don't miss it! Get your free ticket now: https://bit.ly/438xYHI
@bethyb1886
@bethyb1886 Aw thanks Beth. Back at you!
Have you heard of #DementiaCommunity? It's the society behind the @JDementiaCare, Dementia Congress and the Annual Dementia Awards. Join Barbara, Jude and myself next week to find out more!
To book - https://emmasmith561.clickmeeting.com/in-conversation-with-dementia-community-connecting-and-empowering-the-dementia-community-/register
Glad to be sharing resources about how to support people living alone right #dementia & without informal support https://livingalonewithdementia.co.uk/our-resources @sheffhallamuni @Innov_Dementia #socialcare
@bethyb1886 @DiverseAlz @IRememberBetter @creativitycare @nursemaiden @piponthecommons @dragonmisery @YODsupporter @helenfindlay @janis_cottee @TommyTommytee18 @ZoeHarris_MCM Hugs to you too dear Beth, and ditto, I’ve had to as well xx
@bethyb1886 @WendyPMitchell There seems to be a theme here Beth
& I love it
I'm sure you'll be remembered as exactly that
❤️
#AlzChat 4pmEST/8pmUK Topic today: Math, puzzles, games and brain stimulation in dementia care
@creativitycare @nursesKidONE @AlzJoyThruTears @bethyb1886 @UnicornSpark @Mycarematters @artsaging @RakheeLb @THEVDOVault #MathematicsDay
You're pretty amazing yourself @bethyb1886. Thanks for all you do on our behalf Beth. Happy mother's day.
I am honoured to be known this list, thank you @bethyb1886 you too are an amazing woman. Not forgetting my friend Wendy Mithchell @WendyPMitchell no longer with us but what a legacy you have left. I will always miss you
A wee wondering inspired by @bethyb1886 & @WendyPMitchell "the lady who took photos"
When you die
who might you be known as?
I might be
"the lady who did do massage"
"the lady who wore wellies"
or even the pain in the a*$! who spoke out against unfairness😆
#SaturdayMorning
@bethyb1886 isn't it!
I wonder what we would be known as?
I might be the lady who does massage
or the lady who wears wellies 😆
Some people have been asking us how they can pay tribute to our mum @WendyPMitchell. We do not expect anything. But if you wish to make a donation, we are splitting the donations between her peer support group Minds and Voices and Dove House Hospice
Rachel @raheli01 is amazing, the person who helped me understand my Lewy body dementia diagnosis along with Lewy body society @lbsorg We need more admiral nurses please
@bethyb1886 @NicolaP321 @MWilding5 @Furniss8Rachel @vicrayner @viclyons @chris40781 @GailGre59728262 @N_Wilson94 @drjanetownson @suzysopenheart @agnes_houston @WhoseShoes @ZoeHarris_MCM @Grace_Meadows_ @lisa_caretalk @jo_dovey @TrudieFell Straight back at you Beth xxx