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Scottish Government Grant for New Dementia Toolkit
23 September 2008
The Scottish Government has just given over £14,000 to Befriending Network Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland to develop a volunteers dementia training programme.
The Dementia Training Toolkit will include materials for befriending co-ordinators to train their volunteers in all aspects of befriending clients with dementia and will contain sections on understanding dementia & befriending, building relationships, maintaining relationships (e.g. stimulating memory, life story work, motivating clients), dealing with challenges and recording and reacting to change.
According to Mike Nicholson, Development Manager at BNS, “The Toolkit will be an invaluable resource. Recent research has shown that many projects in the befriending sector feel ill-equipped to work with this client group despite getting an increasing number of referrals for people with a dementia diagnosis.”
The Toolkit is scheduled for publication in Summer 2009. A steering group of representatives from a range of older people’s projects will be meeting in October 2008 to begin to shape this important piece of work.
For more information on this article, contact Liz Watson on 0131 225 6156, or email admin@befriending.co.uk.
