On Thursday 2nd December, we hosted our Creating Better Lives learning event, the culmination of the Trust’s ‘Community and Dementia: Creating Better Lives’ series of regional events that has been running since 2018.

In November of that year, the Trust began a country-wide tour, engaging with all 14 local health board areas across Scotland, in order to find out how local communities could be supported to create better lives for individuals and families living with dementia.

Some of these events took place face to face, and some had to be moved online, but along the way they have gathered a huge body of evidence about the importance of local support and locally-generated dementia strategies, based on what people living with dementia and unpaid carers have themselves said.

The purpose of this event was to celebrate – and reflect on – this three-year journey, and to share some of the learning and evidence that has been collected along the way.

Along with the regional events, the Trust launched a small grants programme in each area, to enable communities to develop their own opportunities to support people with dementia and unpaid carers. Blake Stevenson was commissioned to evaluate the programme.

In this film, Onyema Ibe and Charlie Murphy give us a taster of their evaluation report, showing the benefits of this ‘local’ approach and what impact these regional grants had on local projects and on people with dementia and unpaid carers.

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