|
Chair: Ruth Eley - CSIP National Programme Lead - Older and Disabled People, Care Services Improvement Partnership, Department of Health & Lead for CSIP on the Dignity campaign, developing the National Dementia Strategy
AM Sessions
9.30 Caring - it's not an age thing!
Carers’ services are developing new kinds of working locally via GP practices, hospital wards, housing associations, schools, job centres, etal. Systems need to help carers not pressurise them into unsustainable caring. Treating unpaid family carers as partners.
Carole Cochrane – Acting Chief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
10.15 The importance of distinguishing dementia, depression & delirium in older people
Why most cases are not diagnosed or treated. How to approve diagnosis & assessment.
Dr Nitin Purandare - Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, University of Manchester
11.00 Exhibition and Morning Coffee
11.45 Keynote address - The National Dementia Strategy - improving the quality of care for people with dementia
Review the national impact of dementia. Review of current service response. Review of change needed. The National Dementia Strategy to date. Implementing the plan.
Professor Sube Banerjee MD MSc FRCPsych - Professor of Mental Health & Ageing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London & Clinical Director for Mental Health of Older Adults in the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Co-lead National Dementia Strategy
12.30 Best practice: Preventing falls in primary care
Implementing & adhering to national directives for falls prevention. Cambridgeshire Community Services Rehabilitation & Falls model. Education & training to enhance sustainable community services.
Mandy Hill - Falls Prevention Nurse Practitioner Team leader, Rehabilitation & Falls Unit Doddington, Cambridgeshire Community Services
1.15 Exhibition and Lunch
PM Sessions
2.15 Nutrition support & older people
Implementing nutritional screening for older people in various care settings in the community. Core care plans for under nutrition. Training needs for healthcare staff. Example of good practices.
Rachael Masters – Highly Specialist Dietitian for Older People, South Durham & Darlington Nutrition & Dietetic Service
3.00 Bladder problems in older people
Pathophysiology of incontinence syndromes in the elderly. Assessment & management of bladder problems. Holistic care of older people with continence problems.
Dr Julian Spinks – General Practitioner
3.45 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea
|
