Presentations - Dementia Active: changing how we see dementia

Dementia Awareness Week Conference 2006

Presentations from this ground-breaking conference on reducing the risk of dementia through healthier lifestyles and a positive and health-promoting approach to living with dementia.

The Conference took place at the start of Dementia Awareness Week 2006 and saw the launch of Alzheimer Scotland’s new dementia risk reduction campaign, Good for you, good for your brain.

The conference followed linked themes: reducing the risk of developing dementia and living with dementia. Throughout, there were perspectives from people with dementia and carers.

Launch speech by Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care, Lewis Macdonald (41kb)

Speech by James McKillop & Ross Campbell (35kb)

Speech by Ted Cleland (30kb)

Speech by Cynthia Bromley (19kb)

Keeping Active, Staying Involved - Professor Caroline Cantley, Northumbria University (1.53mb)

Healthy living in long stay care - Jill Manthorpe, Social Care Workforce Research Unit,King’s College London (60kb)

Group psychotherapy with people with dementia: lifting the curtain - Richard Cheston, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, AWP, Honorary Research Fellow, Bath University (213kb)

Healthy caring: supporting carers of people with dementia - Professor Debbie Tolson, Centre for Gerontological Practice, Glasgow Caledonian University (1.17mb)

Innovative dementia services - Kate Fearnley, Policy Director, Alzheimer Scotland (610kb)

Stress control - Sandra Johnston, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Steps Team (277kb)

What are you going to do now? - Jim Jackson, Chief Executive, Alzheimer Scotland (111kb)

Risk reduction & dementia: the evidence - Maureen Thom, Information Manager, Alzheimer Scotland (176kb)