Improving support for people with dementia and families
Project Background
The facilitator project with Carers of West Lothian will work with unpaid carers for people with dementia, staff , and wider stakeholders to explore ‘living grief‘: grieving for the person with dementia while they are still alive.
Most support currently available online is extremely text-heavy and not interactive. This project will give faces and voices to the difficult, and stigmatised, topic of living grief. It will look at how to sensitively address challenging topics, like loss, identity and death, without skirting around the theme within the delivery of services as well as through improvements to their own website and published information. This project is based in Livingston, Scotland.
Meet Our Facilitator: Kayleigh Lytham
“I am Kayleigh and my Facilitator role with IMPACT is in partnership with Carers of West Lothian where we are focusing on the topic of ‘living grief’ for carers of people living with dementia. My background is in physical activity and health, developing evidence-based behaviour change projects and programmes for people with long term health conditions.”