1. Action Plan

2. Actions

• Support the work of the Great Yarmouth Dementia Action Alliance

  Be an active member of the Great Yarmouth Dementia Action Alliance

  Status:

  Being implemented

  2017 - Third Quarter Update

  New action 22.9.17

• Claremont Nursing Home (3) Raise funds

  What we are going to do: Look at opportunities to raise funds to enable media cover and other suitable marketing. Use fetes, work activities to promote and fund raise. 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Claremont Nursing Home (2) Market The dementia alliance group

  What we are going to do:

  Use media, businesses, local community to enhance knowledge and understanding, support and help individuals to receive appropriate aid. Commit time to meet and discuss appropriate actions to take the group forward in Great Yarmouth.

   

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Claremont Nursing Home (1) making Great Yarmouth Dementia friendly

  What we are going to do:  Promote Dementia awareness through local businesses and meetings and working with the community. The Care homes has a lot of stakeholders who we could use to do this with. 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• The Memory Joggers : contribution (2)

  What we are going to do      we are going to carry on raising awareness by holding awareness days in Gt Yarmouth , the J U P H , The Forum in Norwich and other locations including Norwich Station where we will put on a display of memorabilia  which attracts a lot oif attention and therefore ‘raises awareness’

  Status:

  Being implemented

• The Memory Joggers : contribution (3)

  We are at the moment working with Coastal Village Practices and East Coast Practice  holding informal meets and get togethers for people living with dementia or newly diagnosed patients . at these we offer practical  advice and also have a wide range of information available for people to take away . this will continue 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Music Makers Great Yarmouth Provide fun, failure free music based reminiscence activities

  Provide music based reminiscence activities on the second and fourth Thursday of each month in a safe, supportive environment.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Music Makers Great Yarmouth Provide fun, failure free music based reminiscence activities (2)

  Promote the activities of Music Makers and also of other local and national groups increasing awareness of the needs of people with memory problems and of helping organizations.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Music Makers Great Yarmouth Provide fun, failure free music based reminiscence activities (3)

  We will encourage members, volunteers and others we come in contact with to engage with dementia friends training and other initiatives.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Great Yarmouth Mercury Train front desk staff

  Train our two front desk receptionist staff to make them aware of dementia issues

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Great Yarmouth Mercury (2) Raise awareness

  Promote the aims of the alliance through Archant newspapers

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Great Yarmouth Mercury (3) Promote

  Promote the actions of the GY DAA to your colleagues, other organisations, businesses, branches etc.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• MandalayWellbeing CIC (1)

  Work to drive awareness of Great Yarmouth DDA and help businesses in the area become dementia friendly.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• MandalayWellbeing CIC (2)

  Update the GYDAA Facebook Page and share posts from and to relevant pages.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• MandalayWellbeing CIC (3)

  Attend Dementia Awareness Training and meetings

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Constabulary, Great Yarmouth (1) Herbert Protocol

  The police in Great Yarmouth will set up a system to register a Herbert Protocol in cases when someone with dementia, who lives in their own home, and is at risk from wandering or has been missing and later found.    A copy will then be kept in the home and it will be tagged to the Police Control Room.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Constabulary, Great Yarmouth (2) Dementia Friendly Front Office

  To consider how the public enquiry office at Great Yarmouth Police Station can be made dementia friendly when it is renovated. 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Constabulary, Great Yarmouth (3) Dementia Friendly Front Office

  We will identify members of frontline Policing to become Dementia Champions; they will receive training in Dementia awareness and will be a source of information and support to colleagues, and can facilitate training for teams.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG (3) Increase people’s access to information about dementia

  Update the CCG’s section of the website on dementia to ensure there are the links and contact details to other organisations which people with dementia and/or their families/carers can access

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Library and Information Service (2) Assessment

  Undertake a dementia assessment of buildings Signage etc. Working towards making our space more Dementia friendly to our customers.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Library and Information Service (3) Support partners

  What we are going to do:

  Continue to provide space for partners working with people with dementia to engage and support their clients. Currently host a monthly Dementia café and carers support group.

  Provide free use of reminiscence kits and other resources to support carers and partners working with clients with dementia

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Fire & Rescue (1) Give dementia awareness training to all staff at Gt Yarmouth Fire Station

  One hour sessions to be organised and completed by all staff

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Fire & Rescue (2) Advertise with posters/stickers, possibly on fire engines that we are dementia friendly

  Obtian stickers and place on fire engines and officer cars.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Fire & Rescue (3) Update your website plan with good news stories.

   Involve The Service IT team to show the public, through our website, that all Gt Yarmouth Fire Station Staff are dementia friendly

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk County Council Adult Social Services (1) Promote the role of the dementia champion within the Eastern Locality area

  As part of Norfolk County Councils commitment to the Dementia Action alliance there will be a focus on the promotion of the dementia champion role within the Eastern locality area. 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk County Council Adult Social Services (2) Continue to support the promoting independence strategy

  As part of Norfolk County Councils promoting independence strategy workers are required to support individuals to use their communities and close networks to improve and manage their circumstances. As part of the dementia alliance Norfolk County Council will endeavour to continue to support individuals experiencing dementia and those that care for them. 

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk County Council Adult Social Services (3) Work in a multi-disciplinary way to promote a dementia friendly community

  Norfolk County Council works closely with its partner agencies including the statutory and voluntary sectors. As part of the dementia action alliance Norfolk County Council will continue to work with these agencies and promote the dementia alliance to support the development of the initiative.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• DIAL GREAT YARMOUTH (1) Raise awareness of dementia amongst staff.

  What we are going to do: All staff to undertake Dementia Awareness training which will be delivered by Jackie Tierney and become Dementia Friends.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• DIAL GREAT YARMOUTH (2) Be part of the Steering Group

  What we are going to do: Be proactive in putting forward suggestions and ideas of how to help Great Yarmouth become a dementia friendly town.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• DIAL GREAT YARMOUTH (3) Is DIAL a dementia friendly building?

  What we are going to do: Undertake an assessment of the building to see if and what we as an organisation need to change to make us a dementia friendly building.

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Alzheimer’s Society (1) Raise awareness of the Dementia Action Alliance in the Community

  1:  All Alzheimer's Society Great Yarmouth and Norfolk stands will include DAA marketing material.

  2: Our Dementia Support Worker will include DAA and DFC in talks with

  Status:

  Being implemented

• NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG (1) Raise awareness of dementia within the CCG

  Provide Dementia Friends training for new staff in the CCG

  Status:

  Being implemented

• NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG (2) Advertise the DAA

  Advertise the DAA through the CCG’s website and social media

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Norfolk Library and Information Service (1) Staff Training

  Most staff have received Dementia friends training and wear badges. Commit, to ensure new staff and volunteers have the opportunity to become friends and existing staff to receive refresher training periodically.

   

  Status:

  Being implemented

• Promote and deliver Dementia Friends Information Sessions

  As a Dementia Awareness Champion, continue offering free sessions to schools, colleges, organisations, businesses etc.  helping to create 4 million Dementia Friends in the UK by 2020

  Status:

  Being implemented

  2017 - Third Quarter Update

  New action 22.9.17

• The Memory Joggers : contribution

  We are going to carry on doing as much reminiscence training as we can which makes carers and cared for’s lives that little bit easier we have already trained between 5 and 600 candidates from all walks of life and all, parts of Norfolk and Nth Suffolk including the N H S Dementia team in the J U P H Gt Yarmouth .

  Status:

  Initial Scoping

• Provide a dementia cafe for people affected by dementia in Great Yarmouth

  Hold a weekly Pabulum café at the ACORN Centre supporting people living with Dementia and their carers

  Status:

  Being implemented

  2017 - Third Quarter Update

  New action 22.9.17