{"id":99,"date":"2019-01-24T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:53:57","slug":"my-visit-to-a-living-with-dementia-group-in-weston-super-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/2019\/01\/24\/my-visit-to-a-living-with-dementia-group-in-weston-super-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"My Visit to a Living With Dementia Group in Weston-super-Mare"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was very pleased to receive an invitation last year to go along to a Living with Dementia Group in Weston-super-Mare to talk about my research. Last week I visited the Group, which is facilitated by Hayley Pope of Alzheimer's Society South West England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a lovely, informal session <\/span>and it was great to meet a group of people with such a positive approach to life. I think it is important to reduce the stigma surrounding dementia, and I could see how the group members also felt this way because of their involvement locally and, in some cases, nationally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In our session, I talked\u00a0a little bit about Designability<\/a> and some of the products they are developing, including a prototype task prompter. It was reassuring to hear how the Group thought that the tool, which helps someone complete a set of step-by-step instructions for tasks around the home, could be of use to them. Some of the things they thought could be helpful include:<\/span><\/p>\n