Healthy Living Club: A Blueprint For Dementia-Centred Communities - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Healthy Living Club:

• How the club came to be
• Philosophy of the club
• Why the club works
• What the club struggles with
• The evidence

A Blueprint For Dementia-Centred Communities

Healthy Living Club – Our Story Healthy Living Club: Our Story

Healthy Living Club – Our Story Healthy Living Club: Our Story

“A community of individuals living well with dementia in Lambeth”

• ‘Failure-free’ environment
• Respite from being ‘cared for’
• Everyone benefits (& has FUN!)
• Being “in the moment”
• A natural, go-with-the-flow

environment

• Everyone is friends

Healthy Living Club: Our Philosophy

Healthy Living Club: Our Philosophy

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What the HLC struggles with

• Frustration with the demands of ‘evaluation’

– Stating the obvious – Wrong priorities – Forces saturation of an activity

• Getting funding

– Criteria for larger funding – Getting people to engage in smaller funding

• pportunities

– Time spent on funding applications

Why the HLC works so well: use our ‘Blue Print’

• Commitment
• Ownership (members and

volunteers)

• Mood and engagement

levels

• Sharing what works
• The structure and strategy:

trustees are members

The evidence: don’t just take our word for it….

• Dementia Care Mapping:
• Mood &

engagement levels

• Occupational

diversity

• “Personal

Enhancers”

The evidence: don’t just take our word for it….

• Volunteers do the fundraising and find 40% of our

income!

• Members

are proud to show off the club

• Volunteers

never leave!