November 2019
Huge congratulations this month to Butterfly Scheme Lead Chris O’Connor and the team at East Surrey Hospital, winners of the 2019 award for Best Dementia-Friendly Hospital! Since Chris’s arrival […]
October 2019
This month, someone I consider a friend, met via Twitter, lost the much-loved father she’d been caring for during his journey with Lewy Body Dementia. She’d been a dedicated […]
September 2019
Back in 2010, the Butterfly Scheme was just starting to go into hospitals and Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust was a very early applicant, adopting the scheme early in 2011. […]
August 2019
Visiting a much-loved relative, living with dementia and now
in nursing care, I reflected this month on how easy it was for me to interact
with her, but how tricky it […]
July 2019
I get really wound up when people talk about
“identification schemes”. Identification is an admin tool, nothing more; it’s
what an identifier triggers that might, or might not, deserve the description
of […]