As a final-year occupational therapy student, I spent my last placement at Alzheimer Scotland, and it’s been one of the most valuable learning experiences of my degree. It offered a mix of structured projects, co-production work, direct engagement with people living with dementia and their carers, and insight into the wider systems that support dementia care across Scotland.
One of the most rewarding parts of this placement was being treated like a professional-in-training rather than just a student. I was trusted to contribute to meaningful work—like updating the “Travelling...
Supporting dementia family caring is an essential component of the roadmap to continual improvement in dementia care and to supporting the ambitions of...
Last year Queen Margaret University ran its first elective module on occupational therapy practice with people living with dementia and their care givers,...
Generally speaking, when a person develops an Alzheimer’s
type of dementia, they are presumed to have Alzheimer’s disease, the most
common dementia. Jim was diagnosed...
