No Limits - Reimagining Life with Dementia
A facilitated residential event for people with a dementia diagnosis who want to become change agents, activists and advocates. Participants will create a platform for their own transforming effort in the communities where they live designed to prolo
I'm Laurence, Project Leader
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I love my job! It's the best job in the world. Every day I get the chance to make a difference; often in just very small ways. I work as a citizen advocate by helping people to speak up and to advocate for themselves, by helping them to develop common cause through peer-advocacy partnerships. Anyone can learn how to become more effective as an advocate for themselves and for their loved ones. Getting control over events in our lives can frequently be helped when we learn how to get the response and reaction we need from the other people around us. This is a skill. It can be learned. When we learn how to do this we empower ourselves to become more effective.
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Project headlines
- To make the project happen we need to raise a total of £266.00
- £100.96 has been contributed by 3 individuals.
- There are 33 days remaining in which to find a further £165.04 in order to complete the projects' funding requirements and start the project.
- 8 people have contributed funds or pledged support to the project.
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These people have supported:
Laurence Gardiner, Barret Stanboulian, Gerry Evans, Nigel Minchin, Elaine Freed
These people have contributed:
Elaine Freed, Gerry Evans, Barret Stanboulian
This project in more detail
We are a volunteer campaign group run by individuals with dementia. We are raising money for our expenses so that we can run a residential workshop. Our goal is to produce and disseminate learning materials about living with dementia. The No Limits project group have presented a touring exhibition road-show at national events in Bradford, Glasgow and Liverpool. No Limits – Re-imagining Life with Dementia was developed in partnership with men and women with dementia. The exhibition explores the individual and collective strength of people living with this condition and brings to life ideas around community, empowerment, and friendship. The work in this exhibition is grounded in material gathered from a pioneering research study by Dr Ruth Bartlett on the campaigning efforts of people with dementia. The original project was funded by the ESRC under the Follow on Funding scheme.
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"This is a very worthwhile project having looked after my husband who had dementia for 15 years, help is vital for the person who has been diagnosed, they learn how they can cope with their illness at the beginning and they have that help as it advances, giving them understanding, not going through the "trial and error"of families who will be supporting this, who might feel equally helpless."
Elaine Freed
8:57pm Thursday 16th February
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