Dementia Project

• Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge: ‘ In March 2012 set a challenge to deliver major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015’.

• Range of work going on in order to meet this challenge.

• Dementia friendly communities (including schools).

Co-operative learning trust

• Self-responsibility, social responsibility and caring for others.

• Importance of wider community.• Vision to build a culture within which every

pupil finds a way to contribute to the wider community.

How did we get involved?

• Exemplary Health and Social Care Department.• Range of qualifications.• A level Health and Social Care complete a unit ‘Care Practice and

Provision’.• Rock Sturt (BME service development officer) suggested that

NSfG should apply to become one of the pioneer group schools for the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge.

• Students were instrumental in our bid to become one of the pioneer schools.

• Dementia forest – provided a way of starting the conversation in our school about dementia.

• Every member of our school community was invited to anonymously complete a label.

The project so far………..

My Mum had dementia and couldn’t remember me and just hugged me and said I was a lovely girl.

My Dad had dementia and used to comment that my Mum was a good woman and always helped him but he didn’t know who she was until a week before he died when he referred to her as ‘my lovely wife’.