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The project has emerged really
over the last seven years from the
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strategic planning, the dementia action plan, to look at how we can transform
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services to support people living with
dementia and their carers.
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Over the years, more and more
people with dementia have attended
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the centre, all the staff have benefitted
from a five-day training programme
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and their expertise has really grown.
I call them the Rondel House A-Team now
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because I'm so proud of how
they've transformed over the last few years.
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You'll appreciate that when you're
caring for someone with dementia
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or Alzheimer’s it is an isolation.
The Covid thing for the last two years
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has simply exacerbated that isolation.
It's quite stressful really,
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and the two days that Anne comes
here to the centre means that
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first of all, I'm relieved of the
responsibility and knowing that she's safe
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in good hands, then I can start
being less isolated.
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We've seen such a difference
in the people who've come back
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or new people starting post-Covid
and their relatives have come back
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to us and said what a difference,
even after one week, you know,
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one day, two days, of coming back
they've seen a difference in their relative.
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They're brighter, they're more alert,
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you know it's just relieved that isolation
and you know, helped their concentration
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a bit more.
So, it's about being imaginative,
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creative and responding to what
people want and need.