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Previous thred chats
Our #DementiaInLiverpool chats are always open to everyone affected by or with an interest in Dementia wherever you are in the world.
Tommy Dunne and Paul Hitchmough from @thredCiC host a weekly twitter chat for an hour every Wednesday at 8pm for people living with Dementia and those who support them. Including organisations, care homes and care workers during this period. We want to enable people to chat virtually now it may be difficult to meet up physically. Our aim is to reduce social isolation for all those affected by Dementia. We have already completed 16 twitter chats:
Week 1: Music & Dementia
Week 2: Social isolation
Week 3: Dementia and Communication
Week 4: Tips for Dementia Carer Support
Week 5: Tips for coping with depression/anxiety in dementia care
Week 6: Care tips for nutrition, mealtimes and exercise
Week 7: Loss and Grief in Dementia
Week 8: Life goes on following a diagnosis of Dementia
Week 9: What can “stories” teach us about dementia and can they have a significant impact on care?
Week 10: Technology and why it plays an important part in Dementia
Week 11: Transport, Health, Research, Economy and their importance to dementia
Week 12: Stigma, Sundowning, End of life, Palliative Care and dementia
Week 13: Visiting a Person Living With Dementia (PLWD) whether it be in their own home or in a care home following lockdown (Part 1)
Week 14: Visiting a Person Living With Dementia (PLWD) whether it be in their own home or in a care home following lockdown (Part 2)
Week 15: Dementia and Health Checks Prediagnosis and Post Diagnosis
Week 16: 'People with dementia should have a right to prepare and plan and participate in their own future'
Week 17: Pets in Dementia Care
Week 18: Dementia diagnosis support tips
Week 19: BAME, LGBT+ & Dementia
Week 20: Travelling safely with dementia
Week 21: Intergenerational activities & dementia care
Week 22: Young onset Dementia
Week 23: What Dementia has taught me
Week 24: Coping with Caring, Covid and Dementia
Week 25: Supporting self-expression in dementia Care
Week 26: Tips to handle behaviour changes in dementia care
Week 27: Simple, practical tips to make everyday things easier for a person with dementia
Week 28: How can Caregivers take care of themselves. Managing depression and anxiety
Week 29: Breaking down boundaries: working in partnership to create dementia inclusive societies
Week 30: Cultural Appropriation, Micro-aggressions
Week 31: Tips for listening in dementia care, and barriers
Week 32: Dementia care tips during Christmas holiday celebrations
Week 33: Christmas tweet jokes
Week 34: Mindfuness in dementia care
Week 35: Creative arts and creative self expression in dementia care part 1
Week 36: Art activities in dementia care part 2
Week 37: Behaviour, Feelings, Anger, ‘Peculiar’, ‘Inappropriate‘, also Taboo subjects Inappropriate Sexual behaviour, Incontinence
Week 38: What’s it like to have dementia
This week:
‘How you can live better with dementia’
Thanks to initial funding from LCR Cares - Covid 19 Community Support Fund
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