Housing - Rising to the Dementia Challenge

Join the Dementia And Housing Working Group for an afternoon of inspiring speakers, this fast paced event will leave everyone with ideas and inspiration that can improve your housing offer, the services that you commission or the buildings you design.

Speakers include, most importantly, the voice of people living with dementia, the work we have been doing on the APPG recommendations on housing and dementia, examples of good practice, the role of technology and design.

• 12:30pm Dementia Friends Session (Optional)
• 1:00pm Registration and Lunch 
• 1:45pm Welcome to Trowers - Trowers Partner
• 1:50pm Welcome - Bruce Moore, Housing 21
• 2:00pm Veronica Hackett, carer and mother to Matthew Hackett - who has Parkinson’s and young onset dementia, he is 53
• 2:10pm APPG Housing and Dementia Recommendations - Padlet - Wendy Wells, Guinness Care
• 2:20pm The Work in West Yorkshire - Helen Forman, Urban Design Manager West Yorkshire Combined Authority Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership
• 2:30pm Role of digital/impact - Ali Rogan
• 2:40pm Break
• 3:00pm Recording - Wendy Mitchell, The right housing: what does it mean to me
• 3:05pm Cultural Insight - Moise Roche, UCL
• 3:15pm Dementia Friendly Gardens - Angeli Ganoo, Fletcher PRP 
• 3:25pm Dementia design in housing - Heidi Fisher, Housing 21
• 3:35pm Alzheimer’s Society - Tanya Williams 
• 3:35pm Dementia choir - 60 Penfold St - Jack Bazalgette
• 4:00pm Close and thank you. Robert East, NHG Director of Care and support