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- Maintaining contact with OCN participants during the COVID-19 pandemic (part two)
Posted on November 26, 2020
For all their determination to remain cheerful and positive, all the carers I have spoken to have witnessed a marked deterioration in their loved one’s overall condition. This relates to both their mental and physical state. The experience of lockdown has clearly exacerbated this situation and brought a new level of anxiety to people who were already having difficulties in coping.
Living with lockdown - Maintaining contact with OCN participants during the COVID-19 pandemic (part one)
Posted on November 19, 2020
It goes without saying that this has been a trying time for us all. 2020 has thrown up so many problems and difficulties for people living with dementia and their carers that it’s difficult to know where to begin.
Living with lockdown - Reality check: the true impact of COVID-19 on those providing support services
Posted on October 21, 2020
Davina and Dawn, both Dementia Services Co-ordinators with Town Break in Stirling, talked with OCN volunteer Janet Wood to explain the many ways in which the current pandemic has impacted on the charity’s work.
Living with lockdown - Care home and Personal Protective Equipment
Posted on October 15, 2020
The following is an account of one participant’s experience of the pandemic, changing guidance and visiting a loved one in a care home setting.
Living with lockdown - OCN Vlog A Walk in the Park
Posted on October 12, 2020
What has the impact of Covid-19 been for a person living with dementia on their own?
Living with lockdown - Hospital experiences COVID-19
Posted on September 4, 2020
Feedback from OCN participants indicates an urgent need for better education and understanding of dementia by hospital staff, particularly those in non-clinical positions.
Living with lockdown - Alzheimer Scotland: A COVID-19 case study
Posted on August 28, 2020
Donna Paterson, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Advisor for Stirling and Clackmannanshire, talks to Kevin Harrison at Our Connected Neighbourhoods.
Living with lockdown - SSAFA: a case study of third sector support during Covid -19
Posted on August 21, 2020
SSAFA, the Armed Forces Charity, has a tremendous operation utilising caseworkers and volunteers to reach people at any stage of their military career and support them in crisis.
Living with lockdown - Caring from a distance
Posted on July 31, 2020
Throughout lockdown OCN has maintained phone contact with two gentlemen whose wives have dementia. Both provided care at home until the time came where they had no choice but to place their partners into residential homes.
Living with lockdown - When You Can’t Get Dressed Up and Go Out – The Importance of the Occasion and Neighbourhood During Lockdown
Posted on July 24, 2020
Thursday Evenings. 8pm. It starts as a murmuring clap. The silence is broken and as doors open and pots are banged, a neighbourhood in stasis, in paralysis, comes to life.
Living with lockdown - Coping with Lockdown When Your Loved One is in a Care Setting
Posted on July 17, 2020
Many people have found themselves separated from their loved one who is living with dementia during lockdown and in some cases this has been due to them living in a residential care setting.
Living with lockdown - When Covid Changed Everything: From Living at Home to Living in a Care Home
Posted on July 10, 2020
Carers up and down the country have faced some difficult decisions with the onset of coronavirus. Hard won efforts to support their loved ones at home have become far more challenging and in many cases unsustainable due to the dissipation of regular services.
Living with lockdown
