Connecting Carers to Support. | Let’s Talk about Dementia

In our AHP Dementia webinar in August 2024, people joined the conversation with members of the National Dementia Carers Action Network, where they shared what has been helpful for them, offering advice on how we can work as allied health professionals. We also heard from a range of Allied Health Professionals who shared their their role to support family carers.  Our guest presenters were:  

• Frank O’Hagan & Ian Tomney – National Dementia Carers Action Network
• Gill Gowran, Caroline Dougal & Sarah Jane Donald – Occupational Therapists
• Gillian McMillan – Dietitian
• Claire Craig – Physiotherapist

You can WATCH AGAIN; the webinar link is here

We invited participants at the end of the webinar to share something they would take away from the webinar and use in their practice, or life, or going forward. Here is a selection of the replies.

• The hints and tips from the session.
• I will use a lot of the advice daily in my role
• The varied role of AHPs
• How invaluable AHPs are and the resources they provide.
• Make more use of the AHP resources that are available and encourage all of the people that I work with who are living with dementia to live the best life they can
• More knowledge and keen to find out more re Carers’ Academy and Alzheimer Scotland resources for carers.
• Continue to include carers in the conversation and care of their person.
• How to better involve carers in the planning of their loved one’s carer
• The importance of timely assessments and the impact that has on services being provided.
• Use of range of resources specific to dementia, very useful for information and to signpost to 
• Mindful for carer’s perspective
• The strategies the occupational therapist used such as the contrast-coloured bed spread and the tape around the light switch.
• Contact AHPs to see if they will visit our centre, to chat to carers directly about their roles aiming to connecting them.
• The range of AHP services available to people and greater knowledge about what they do.

COMING SOON in 2025.  Our AHP Dementia webinars this year will be held on:

• 30^th April from 3.30pm – 4.30pm with a focus on enhanced access
• 25^th June from 3.30pm – 4.30pm with a focus on partnership working
• 5^th November from 3.30pm – 4.30pm with a focus on a skilled workforce
• 10^th December from 3.30pm – 4.30pm with a focus on innovation, improvement and research

Hold the dates as we move to a new platform for our AHP dementia webinars and also offer AHP spotlight sessions in the Alzheimer Scotland Virtual resource centre.

Email us at AHPDementia@alzscot.org for more information or to let us know what content you would be interested to learn more about.