We navigated our way through 2016 following our achievement of winning the national award for Dementia Care with great optimism. We were also chosen to meet with the health secretary, who at the time was Jeremy Hunt, to discuss how the UK needed to address, change and improve the delivery of Dementia Care throughout primary and secondary […]

We both started to believe that we were really making a difference to peoples lives and our confidence in ourselves started to grow. Winning the regional award meant that we would automatically be through to the National finals but… it also meant another round of  interviews. We were on such a high but it was […]

Personally, things were really hard. Not just for myself but Megan also, we felt so conflicted. We knew what we were doing was right, we were changing the way dementia care was delivered. We were enabling people living with the condition to be themselves, enjoy the things they always have done, give families respite, promote […]