| 08:15-09:00 |
Registration & Networking |
| 09:00-10:05 |
1st Morning Plenary |
| 09:00 |
Chair`s Joint Opening Address |
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| 09:10 |
Keynote Address - Current Progress on Improving Dementia Care & Support |
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Gillian Barclay (confirmed)
Head of Dementia Innovations Unit, The Scottish Government |
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- Progress and impact of Scotland’s National Dementia Strategies
- Post-diagnostic support
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| 09:25 |
Recent Progress towards Dementia Prevention |
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- Outline the knowledge requirements for personalised prevention strategies for dementia
- Highlight key global projects being led from Scotland
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| 09:45 |
Human Rights Based approach to Dementia Care |
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Irene Oldfather (confirmed)
Director, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) |
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The session will cover the challenges and opportunities around:
- Agreeing a Charter of Rights
- Embedding Rights
- Implementing Rights
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| 10:05-10:20 |
Morning Q&A Panel Debate 1 |
| 10:20-10:30 |
Comfort Break |
| 10:30-11:30 |
2nd Morning Plenary |
| 10:30 |
Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland |
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Claire Sweeney (confirmed)
Director of Quality Assurance, Healthcare Improvement Scotland |
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| 10:50 |
Improving Care and Support: NES and the SSSC Promoting Excellence Workforce Development Programme |
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Caroline Lamb (confirmed)
Chief Executive, NHS Education for Scotland |
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This presentation will provide an overview of the Promoting Excellence Framework and subsequent workforce development plan for the health and social services, outlining how this supports a human rights approach to practice. Some specific national education initiatives will be described, alongside plans for the future to continue to support implementation of Scotland’s next dementia strategy.
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| 11:10 |
Promoting Excellence in Dementia Care and Support in Care Homes |
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Kevin Mitchell (confirmed)
Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance, The Care Inspectorate |
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- Policy context
- Focussing on dementia care during inspections
- Capturing the experiences of people who use services through observation
- What does good practice look like ?
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| 11:30-11:45 |
Morning Q&A Panel Debate 2 |
| 11:45-12:10 |
Coffee & Networking |
| 12:10-12:35 |
Case Study 1 |
| 12:10 |
An epidemiological study of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease |
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Dr Fergus Daly (confirmed)
Biostatistics Team Lead, Frontier Science Scotland |
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- Identifying informative measurement variables
- An international standard for data presentation and analysis
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| 12:35-13:00 |
Case Study 2 |
| 12:35 |
Developing Admiral Nurse 1:2:1 clinics to support communities and organisations |
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- How Admiral Nurse 1:2:1 clinics offer the opportunity to reach rural communities.
- Admiral Nurse 1:2:1 clinics can support employers become more dementia aware by providing specialist clinics in the workplace for employees.
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch in the Network Surgery |
| 14:00-15:10 |
1st Afternoon Plenary |
| 14:05 |
Chair`s Joint Introduction to the Afternoon |
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| 14:15 |
Keynote Address - Making human rights in dementia real: the potential and the reality |
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This brief session will explore the potential for human rights to become a core component of the whole dementia pathway, from personal choice to commissioning support; from quality of care to the ethics of decision making
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| 14:30 |
An interdisciplinary approach to tackling dementia |
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Dr Frank Gunn-Moore (confirmed)
Executive Committee Member, Alzheimer`s Research UK - Scotland Network Centre |
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- Biology, chemistry and physics is what is needed to solve dementia issues
- How to find a drug target
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| 14:50 |
Investing in Dementia Research |
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- Financial investment - a portfolio for prevention, cure and care
- Human investment - training dementia researchers for the future
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| 15:10-15:25 |
Afternoon Q&A Panel Debate 1 |
| 15:25-15:35 |
Comfort Break |
| 15:35-16:05 |
2nd Afternoon Plenary |
| 15:35 |
Improving Skills Development for the Healthcare Support Workforce |
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| 15:55 |
A One Stop Guide to Dementia |
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- Research based evidence about dementia that is accessible and easy to understand
- Simple ideas that are easy to implement, which makes a difference for people with dementia and their carers
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| 16:15 |
Seeing dementia through a different spectrum |
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| 16:35-16:50 |
Afternoon Q&A Panel Debate 2 |
| 16:50-16:55 |
Conference Close & Chairs Closing Remarks |
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