Your Dementia Friendly Community Flintshire County •Training for local people and businesses to become Dementia friends and champions. Council Dementia Care •Dementia friendly town centres being developed in Mold, Flint and Buckley. and Dementia Friendly •Applications in to Alzheimer's Society for ‘Working Towards Dementia Friendly’ Status for Flint, Buckley (First Town in North County’s Journey Wales) and Mold •7 businesses accredited as Dementia Friendly in Flint •3 County Council Departments accredited as Dementia Friendly •Awareness Play been held in 3 location in Flintshire for the community •Dementia café’s running in Mold, Flint, Buckley, Mostyn, Holywell, Sealand and Queensferry.. •Arts and Dementia activities at Theatr Clwyd through “Art in the Armchair” and “Lost in Art”. •Access to reminiscence resources through Flintshire libraries services, loans of reminiscence Pods and Packs. •Alzheimer's Society befriending and information projects. •Local education and awareness events support by local business There might be a time in and church groups. hospital •Tesco establishing Dementia friendly checkout in both stores in •Access to information and advice about Flintshire Dementia and caring for people with •Boots to offer enhanced support for people living with dementia in Dementia in the community through all local stores. pop-up information points based in GP •Development of ‘Never Ending Story’ in Community location with surgeries. intergenerational work taking place at Flint High and Buckley •Early diagnosis of Dementia through Primaries Flintshire Memory Clinics with access to •Plans to create Dementia Friendly Street design in Buckley via relevant medication and ongoing regeneration team in FCC support. •Development of a Dementia Choir in the community •Funding now for Dementia support workers across all localities in Living at home and living well Flintshire. •EMI assessment bed in local care with dementia home to prevent escalation to specialist •Person centred care programme being nursing provision or hospital admission. undertaken with all home care providers •“Butterfly” Model of inpatient Dementia in Flintshire so that staff can have better nursing rolled out in acute hospitals in D conversations and do things that matter North Wales and some community most to people with dementia. hospitals. E •Providing a Saturday drop-in service to •Art in hospital programme for people support carers to have free time at with Dementia available in acute M weekends. hospital settings and pilot of electronic •Specialist day care for people living technology designed for people with E with dementia in Buckley and Flint. Dementia. N •Opened a resource centre as a focal •Investment in Dementia training for all point in Flintshire for younger people BCUHB staff with dementia (Old Brewery). T •Installed a range of smart technology I and call monitoring systems to promote independence and safety. A •Piloting a night time response service to reassure and support people with Improving your environments dementia through the night. •Dementia friendly garden support and •Equipment distributed to help people development to social care providers R live safely at home and maintain skills •Telecare safety systems stock increasing for and routines. use in the home, to enable people to stay O •Easy access to information and advice living independently and safely through single point of access – SPOA •Support from dementia specialists in A and internet based Information website creating dementia friendly environments DEWIS. using colour and lighting and interactive D resources. Deciding about long term care and accommodation •Developing two new extra care facilities in Flintshire with enhanced support for people living with Dementia in Flint and Holywell to offer greater choice in where to live and making plans for the future. •Introduce the Integrated Assessment Framework to ensure that the right decisions Carers, Family and Friends are taken at the right time and the person’s •Carer support groups available in needs are met appropriately. Mold, Holywell, Mynydd Isa, Hope, •Social workers and providers are able to Shotton and Penyffordd. support people with Dementia and Carers •Carers centre based in Mold D through providing easily understood written developed through NEWCIS information about care homes/extra care, advocating for all carers 5 days a E funding and quality. week, undertaking carer assessments •Improving quality of life for people living in and campaigning in carers rights with M care homes in Flintshire through a person Carers Trust Wales. centred care programme that focuses on •Carers education and training in E achieving what matters most to people living Dementia rolling programme by there. NEWCIS. N •Implementing the enhanced Dementia Care •“Bridging the Gap” voucher scheme Specification so everyone is clear about what offering flexible support and respite for T good Dementia care looks like. carers managed by NEWCIS, drawing I •Listening to the voice of older people living in a on services from all local voluntary care home through projects such as “Listening groups and NEWCIS volunteers. A Friends” which supports older people to visit •Helping carers of people with and befriend residents and provide feedback on Dementia stay well through local what they see and hear. exercise programmes at a gym in •Funding for independent advocates to Mold. R safeguard and represent older people in care •Helping carers at the point of home settings. organising discharge for people with O •Monitor the performance of care home Dementia from community hospitals providers and domiciliary providers through through their hospital discharge A Quality Circle, JIMP meetings and Flintshire’s facilitator post in community hospitals Quality Framework Published Monitoring across Flintshire. D Reports. •Helping carers of people with •Increasing opportunities for people with Dementia come to terms with their Dementia in care homes and extra care to situation through access to local engage with them and participate in new Counselling in NEWCIS and Specialist activities through Flintshire’s Dementia Counselling in BCUHB. Voucher Scheme. •Never ending story •Circle dance •Sing for the brain and Flintshire Sounds •Exercise and fitness •Art and drawing Your Public Workforce •Opportunities for Care Homes to access small •Developing a workforce in social care grants to enhance environments for people with and health settings that is competent dementia and confident to support people with •Development of a partnership network for care Dementia well. homes to share activities and resources •BCUHB training to acute inpatient available including a Buy 1 get 1 free activity care. scheme •Social Services second tier training to Social Services housing staff. •Dementia champion training to enable roll out of basic awareness across Flintshire. •Dementia Friend training for elected members.