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Victoria is founder and Director of Growing Support a social enterprise tackling loneliness, social isolation and inactivity experienced by people with dementia. Growing Support’s volunteer team work alongside people living with dementia turning underused care home gardens into productive growing spaces and thriving hubs of community activity.
July 12, 2016
Gosh! This month’s exciting news is that Growing Support’s work enabling people with dementia to stay socially and physically active has received national recognition. We have been selected as one of the Observer’s 50 New Radicals for 2016. Run in...
April 8, 2016
Natural England have just published an interesting new report: ‘Is it nice outside?’. The report investigates how engagement with nature and the great outdoors can be improved for the benefit of people living with dementia. There were a couple of...
March 2, 2016
Setting out to write a blog post about creativity begins as a rather meta process: a piece of creative writing on what it might mean to be creative. It’s easy to be seduced by the Romantic idea of creativity as...
January 8, 2016
I popped down to our ward this week to see how the new carer’s passport is going. We are working with John's Campaign (http://www.johnscampaign.org.uk/) to champion open visiting for patients with dementia and in the process of piloting it on our...
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