Speaker presentations from our conference Achieving improvements in young onset dementia support: positive, personal and practical initiatives and sulutions, organised in association with the Journal of Dementia Care in Birmingham on 20 September 2018 are available to download below.
09.40 – 11.00 Session 1
Desmond O’Sullivan – ‘I told you I was ill!’
Simon O’Donovan – Younger Onset Dementia Service, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Jeremy Isaacs – Improving the experience of the person with young onset dementia and their family
11.40 – 12.30 Session 2
Dementia Diaries – Dementia Diaries Live!
Mandy Blair & Jacqui Peedell – Adapt Films
Jo Scarle & Mick Whitfield – Connection Point Worcester – ‘time to learn, talk, share and relax’
Dr Penny Foulds and Peter Lyttle – Freshers Young Onset Cafés and Dementia Hubs
14.00 – 15.25 Session 3
Rachel Clayton – From onset of symptoms to diagnosis – our journey and smoothing out the bumps
Donna Chadwick – GPs and young onset dementia – improving understanding and awareness
Hilda Hayo – Young Onset Dementia Admiral nurses – working in collaboration
