1. Action Plan

2. Actions

• Dementia Knowledge

  Improve our understanding of Dementia

  Judge each staff group and assess training requirements – access training though RMBC Bronze to Platinum dementia training.

  Ensure that Dementia Awareness training is a mandatory requirement of all staffs training requirements at a suitable level appropriate for the role of each employee.

  Ensure that the principles of behaviour as a means of communication are acknowledged and understood by all.

  Ensure staff have knowledge of resources that could help families and promote use of them where appropriate

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Dementia Friends

  Ensure all staff sign up as dementia friends and encourage them to cascade their knowledge into the surrounding community and their own net works

  Have a dementia Friends champion to cascade and sustain the dementia friend commitment 

  Status:

  Planning

• Personal Choices

  Ensure that a person with dementia is offered choices and is asked for their input into their care needs where ever possible

  Develop methods of communication for the people with Dementia with speech and communication difficulties 

  Status:

  Delivered

• Dementia Friendly Physical Enviroments

  Make staff aware of the importance of  about dementia friendly environments and have a knowledge base                                       -

  AZ society booklet Have knowledge of the leaflet Making your home dementia friendly

    

  Status:

  Planning

• Food Provision

  Food provision

  Show service users the meal choices they have available  to stimulate senses, smell, sight  

  Status:

  Delivered

• Life History Knowledge

  We have a method of gaining as much knowledge about each person with dementias history and ensure all staff use this knowledge to help a person feel comfortable in their surrounding

  Encourage families to give and record information about the person – suggest use of  THIS IS ME   

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Stimulation

  Reminiscence – Making use of items and pictures to help a person feel comfortable and engage with them 

  Make good use of music as a means of simulation and to make the pe

  Use as many methods of stimulations as possible

  Using all the sensory  methods possible rson more relaxed and engaged

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Signposting

  Sign post (with consent )to other organisations to ensure families live as well with dementia as possible

   have knowledge of services

  Promote engagement with Dementia Support workers  and

   CRISP- Carers information and support programme

  Hold a stock and provide copies of suitable  AZ society leaflets and distribute when appropriate

  Status:

  Planning

• Herbert Propocol

  Gain Knowledge about and introduce

   the Herbert protocol and cascade details about this to families

  ( in information gathering tool to ensure families have relevant information to hand if a person goes missing )

  Status:

  Planning

• SYFR Parnerships

  Become Partners with SYFR ensuring you promote and refer customers living with dementia (with their consent )for a home safety check to keep them living safely

  Ensure all staff are aware of the partnership and have had the guidance available from SYFR 

  Status:

  Planning

• Dementia Section on website

  Have  a Dementia Support section on our  website to have useful links for resources and support as supplied by RDAA and any additional resources that would be helpful to families

  Status:

  Planning

• Prmotion of RDAA

  Promote the concept of Dementia Action Alliance into the community and to all /any suitable businesses

  that the staff group  are involved with

  Follow RDAA on social media to raise more awareness of the alliance work

  Status:

  Planning

• Community Links

  Develop links within the community – faith groups churches, schools,Guides, Brownie and Scouts and Cubs ,any other suitable community group .

  To improve community knowledge and to enhance the lives of the service users    

  Status:

  Planning