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News: KiCA Award Winners

We are delighted to announce that Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Services have won two Kent Integrated Care Alliance (KiCA) awards.  We are the winners of both the 2020 Dementia Champion and Innovation Award. 

The Dementia Champion Award was for an organisation that was able to demonstrate how they enhance the lives of people living with dementia.  As an organisation Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Services has invested heavily in nurturing and empowering its team to be Dementia Champions. Over the past few years many of the team have worked hard on strengthening the voice of people affected by dementia both internally and externally.  We have campaigned and worked with GPs to help them understand the importance of someone getting diagnosis of dementia and through our work with the local MDTs we are constantly fighting against the stigmas associated with dementia and a preconception of what people with dementia can do. We have developed a programme of involving people affected by dementia in our inductions for staff, volunteers and trustees and all of our senior team are committed to involving people with a lived experience of dementia in our recruitment.

The Innovation Award for was an organisation able to demonstrate an innovative process or service they have developed and implemented during the past year. For us of course, this was the rapid action we took to make sure people affected by dementia were still able to access support during the pandemic.  The lockdown measures enforced meant that it was important that we acted quickly. We understood that the impact of lockdown would be enormous – not only for the individual living with dementia, but for their carertoo. The effects of lockdown were felt immediately, and its repercussions meant that people were suddenly unable to access the support services they’d previously come to rely on so heavily – from day servicesupport groups and dementia cafes, to carers coursespostdiagnostic sessions and facetoface supportMany people were feeling anxious and stressedfeeling overwhelmed and unable to cope with the unpredictability of the situation. The team was fantasticthey embraced remote working and getting to grips with new, previously unfamiliar technology and very quickly, we established a virtual audience that has been able to feel connected at a time when it has never been more vitalWhilst making initial calls, we identified people who would not be unable to join in the virtual groups, so in these cases, devised a more bespoke approach to meet their needs. These included regular welfare calls, keeping-in-touch letters, and weekly activity packs to keep people entertained.

“We are all absolutely thrilled to win two of the KiCA Care Awards. Both awards really are a team effort and after such a tough year this accolade is an amazing recognition of the fantastic work the team are doing day in day out to support people affected by dementia. The past year has been really difficult for people affected by dementia and as a charity we had to move quickly to ensure we were there for the people who needed us most, I am so proud of what we have achieved.” Katie Antill, Joint CEO

KiCA will be holding a ceremony in September for the award winners, we cannot wait to celebrate this great achievement!

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