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Living Well With Dementia in North Yorkshire Celebration Report ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ Living Well With Dementia in North Yorkshire | Celebration Report Contents Foreword .................................................................. 4 Ryedale Dementia Friendly Communities . 41 Who we are ................................................................ 5 Case Study - Community Partnerships . 42 Case Study: Blue Badges . 42 Executive Summary . 7 Local Dementia Action Groups in the Clinical Commissioning areas . 8 Case Study: Dementia Friendly music and movement . 43 Summary ................................................................. 44 Making It Happen .......................................................... 10 Workforce Development . 45 Dementia Strategy ......................................................... 11 Alzheimer’s Society Care Home Guide . 45 Principles: . 11 Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 46 Priorities: . 11 Case Study: Dyneley House Surgery . 46 Action Plan . 14 Case Study: Craven District Council . 47 Bring Me Sunshine – Making It Happen Conference ............................. 15 Case Study: Tesco Skipton . 47 Dementia Friendly North Yorkshire............................................ 16 Summary ................................................................. 48 Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 17 Diagnosis and GP engagement............................................... 49 Hambleton and Richmondshire Partnerships . 17 Alzheimer’s Society GP Clinics . 49 Whitby Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) . 18 Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 50 Case Study: Community Roadshow Events . 20 Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 50 Case Study: Reminiscence Cafés Hambleton and Richmondshire . 20 Summary ................................................................. 51 Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 21 Support and Advice . 52 The Easingwold and Villages Action on Dementia Alliance . 21 Case Study: Alzheimer’s Society . 52 Selby District Dementia Friendly Community . 21 Case Study Start: Strategies for Relatives - coping interventions Case Study: Dementia Friends PHSE sessions . 22 for family carers of people living with dementia . 52 Case Study: Sporting Memories . 23 Case Study: (January 2018) GP Dementia Advice Services . 53 Summary ................................................................. 54 Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG area) . 24 Harrogate Public Services Leadership Board . 24 Planning for the future and dying well ......................................... 55 Case Study: Lasting power of attorney . 55 Case Study: Young Onset – Younger People Living with dementia . 26 Case Study: Law Clinics . 55 Case Study: Wellbeing Café – Harrogate and Rural District . 28 Case Study: Death Cafés . 55 Case Study: Dementia Friendly Community - Knaresborough . 28 Case Study: Still Caring . 56 Case Study: Supporting Dementia across Generations and Cultures . 29 Case Study: (2017) GP Dementia Advice Services (Filey) . 56 ‘Show me you care’ . 30 Case Studies: Yorkshire Ambulance Service . 57 Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 32 Summary ................................................................. 58 Dementia Friendly Craven . 32 Moving On ................................................................ 59 Case Study: Leeds and Morecambe Community Rail Partnership – The Bentham Line . 35 Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area . 39 Scarborough Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) . 39 2 3 ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ Living Well With Dementia in North Yorkshire | Celebration Report Foreword Who we are The ‘Bring Me Sunshine – Living Well with Dementia in North Yorkshire Strategy’ Welcome to our celebration (The Dementia Strategy), its Action Plans and this Celebration Report would not have been possible without individuals living with dementia or their families, carers or of the work to implement loved ones, the ‘Bring Me Sunshine – Living Well with Dementia in North Yorkshire North Yorkshire’s Dementia Partnership’, the local Dementia Action Alliances, Dementia Friendly Communities Groups and various Voluntary Sector organisations (The Partners or The Partnership) . Strategy Bring Me Sunshine - Living Well with Dementia York Teaching Hospital in North Yorkshire. NHS Foundation Trust This celebration report is an opportunity to thank all partners and individuals across North Yorkshire who have committed to making North Yorkshire a place where people living with dementia can live well . This report highlights some of the excellent work that has been undertaken as well as showing our collective continued commitment for next year and beyond . This report also recognises ongoing work and commitment from partners that has been co-ordinated and facilitated by The Partnership . The key achievements of 2018 have been driven by the passion and commitment of local individuals, partners and organisations to work together to improve the lives of people living with dementia within their local communities by championing the four principles and five priorities of the Dementia Strategy and concentrating efforts on how to make North Yorkshire more Dementia Friendly . 2019 will see a continued effort on making North Yorkshire Dementia Friendly, whilst also continuing to work towards local action plans to support workforce changes, improvements in diagnosis, simplifying information, advice and guidance and supporting individuals to plan for their future . 4 5 ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ Living Well With Dementia in North Yorkshire | Celebration Report Executive Summary In October 2017, we launched ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ the North Yorkshire Dementia strategy and now seems a fitting time to reflect on the past successes and to look forward to the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. This report sets out some of the key successes but we are acutely aware of the challenges that still lie ahead. ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ brought together The key success of the strategy has been people interested in dementia from across in uniting people around this shared vision North Yorkshire and the wider region to and an agreed set of objectives . As a result, develop a shared vision and goal for what over the past year NYCC has worked with we believe care and support for people 15 local groups to develop and deliver living with dementia should look like . local action plans and to begin to drive change in our communities . These groups Following extensive consultation 4 Principles are led and owned by local communities and 5 Priorities were developed which with chairs ranging from local volunteers, became the underpinning for our approach Councillors, employees of voluntary sector to supporting people living with dementia in organisations and health professionals . North Yorkshire . Through working closely with people living with dementia and their carers Each local group has developed its own set through the development of the strategy we of priorities and actions to address these, could be sure that these principles and priorities full details can be found within the report: reflected the true wishes of our communities . We also knew that a strategy attempting to address an issue as large as dementia in a place as large and diverse as North Yorkshire could only succeed by engaging with and empowering our communities . From the outset we sought to work with existing local organisation and interested parties and this network has become the Bring Me Sunshine partnership which now drives forward delivery of the strategy . 6 7 ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ Living Well With Dementia in North Yorkshire | Celebration Report Local dementia action groups in the Clinical Commissioning areas Whitby Dementia Action Alliance • Make Whitby a Dementia Friendly Community Hambleton and Richmondshire • Undertake the Dementia Friendly Community recognition process Dementia Collaborative: • Create a new website and • Supported Employment Opportunities social media presence • Networks – how can we all work together • Continue to work with partners more effectively as organisations, and support local events. professionals and citizens • Customer Friendly Environments • Young onset dementia Scarborough Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) • Working in partnership across Scarborough and Whitby • Celebrate our achievements • Increase dementia awareness and engagement The Easingwold and Villages Action on Dementia Alliance Dementia Friendly Craven • Awareness and understanding • To enable residents and groups all over the • Community events District to work towards improving the local dementia friendliness of their own communities; • Reducing the stigma of dementia • To create a district wide network to • Training and education support local communities; • The collective voice • To work toward developing a self-advocacy • Influence and Change group to enable people living with dementia to speak for themselves; and • Capacity and Resource • Membership • To promote better understanding of Harrogate Public Services Selby District Dementia dementia across communities Leadership Board Friendly Community • Co-ordination and Collaboration • Local service delivery • Create a dementia friendly Harrogate • Share good practice • Communication • Workforce development • Celebrate our achievements • Engagement • Diagnosis – rates and process • Increase awareness