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The Brain Waves newsletter keeps people with dementia and their allies informed about the work of Innovations in Dementia Community Interest Company.

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Past issues of Brain Waves

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Issue 46 January 2012. Featuring

  • Shared Lives
  • Networking events for people with dementia
  • Dementia-friendly communities in Ireland

Issue 45 December 2011. Featuring

  • My life, my dementia, my club
  • Looking back on 2011: people with dementia staying active in their communities

Issue 44 November 2011. Featuring

  • Our House - progress update
  • A pamper day for residents
  • Vote for Dementia Adventure
  • Design Council challenge

Issue 43 October 2011. Featuring

  • Telling our stories through film
  • Training about dementia
  • EVA - going out live

Issue 42 September 2011. Featuring

  • Dementia Without Walls
  • Local news from our allies
  • Focus on technology

Issue 41 August 2011. Featuring

  • Circles of support for people with dementia
  • Are you changing the world through the involvement of people with dementia?
  • Design Council challenge

Issue 40 July 2011. Featuring

  • How to describe Shared Lives?
  • Ethical issues and dementia
  • Launch of 'Difficult Conversations' booklet
  • Dementia and the Arts event

Issue 39 June 2011. Featuring

  • The power of video
  • We can do IT too
  • Call to action on antipyschotic drugs
  • Vote for Age UK Devon

Issue 38 May 2011. Featuring

  • New 'Circles of support' project
  • Testing multimedia technology with people with dementia in the UK

Issue 37 April 2011. Featuring

  • Our House - a new project
  • Thinking Differently about Dementia in Essex
  • Do you know of examples where older people with high support needs both give and receive support?

Issue 36 March 2011. Featuring

  • Shared Lives for people with dementia - getting creative
  • Getting equipped to tackle forgetfulness - top tips guide launched
  • Peter Thursby

Issue 35 February 2011. Featuring

  • Dementia capable communities - what you told us
  • Help us to promote a positive view of dementia
  • Getting equipped - letting people know about assistive technology
  • Involving people with dementia in research about complex needs

Issue 34 January 2011. Featuring

  • Working with people with more advanced dementia
  • Talking about ‘end of life’ – having difficult conversations
  • Tell us what you think makes a dementia capable community
  • Opportunity to take part in a research trial

Issue 33 December 2010. Featuring

  • Involving people with dementia in our work
  • Some plans for 2011
  • How you can get involved

Issue 32 November 2010. Featuring

  • Gardening and allotments
  • Mental Capacity Act
  • Dementia capable communities

Issue 31 October 2010. Featuring

  • A new look at dementia training
  • Tell us what you think about social work
  • AT Guide

Issue 30 September 2010. Featuring

  • Shared Lives
  • Ramblings
  • Thinking ahead

Issue 29 August 2010. Featuring

  • Women and dementia
  • Our films used in eduction and training

Issue 28 July 2010. Featuring

  • Training
  • Grey matters - brain, mind and culture
  • Meet us at conferences in the autumn

Issue 27 June 2010. Featuring

  • Dementia pioneers in West Berkshire
  • Creative expression by people with dementia
  • Thinking ahead
  • Need a holiday?

Issue 26 May 2010. Featuring

  • Creativity and dementia
  • Testing a new website – we need your help

Issue 25 April 2010. Featuring

  • Dementia Adventure day out in Sussex
  • Successful launch of films made by people with dementia

Issue 24 - March 2010. Featuring

  • Invitation to attend the launch of inspirational films
  • Involving people with dementia in big meetings

Issue 23 - February 2010. Featuring

  • ThinkTank looks at ways to record our activities
  • Engaging with a wide range of people

Issue 22 - December 2009 / January 2010. Featuring

  • Deciding what Innovations in Dementia should do
  • Looking forward to 2010
  • Dementia friendly communities

Issue 21 - November 2009. Featuring

  • Penelope gives an ‘inspirational’ talk in London
  • Our reflections from the Dementia Congress
  • ThinkTank film causes a reaction
  • Poem from John

Issue 20 - October 2009. Featuring

  • ThinkTank film in production
  • Living life ... not living death
  • News ways to contact us

Issue 19 - September 2009. Featuring

  • Our Community Interest report 2009
  • 'Our House' - a new project

Issue 18 - August 2009. Featuring

  • Switched on Communities
  • Investigating different ways of finding information

Issue 17 - July 2009. Featuring

  • Shared Lives

Issue 16 - June 2009. Featuring

  • Equal but different?

Issue 15 - May 2009. Featuring

  • Information about assistive technology for people with dementia.
  • Start Making Sense – project plan.

Issue 14 - April 2009. Featuring

  • Video project - report of first meeting
  • Working with carers

Issue 13 - March 2009. Featuring

  • Start Making Sense - experiences of using maps and symbols

Issue 12 - February 2009. Featuring

  • Start Making Sense - a report from an initial meeting with people with dementia.

Issue 11 - January 2009. Featuring

  • People with dementia and computers – a successful project completed
  • Start making sense – what do we mean by information?

Issue 10 - December 2008. Featuring

  • Looking back at 2008 and forward to 2009
  • A piece of my mind

Issue 9 - November 2008. Featuring

  • People with dementia at Innovation Live event
  • A plea for genuine care.

Issue 8 - October 2008. Featuring

  • Starting ‘Start making sense’
  • Videos by people with dementia
  • Spreading the work – ID at conferences

Issue 7 - September 2008. Featuring

  • Video leaflets
  • Developing a logo for Innovations in Dementia
  • What our day centre means to us

Issue 6 - August 2008. Featuring

  • Start making sense
  • National dementia strategy

Issue 5 - July 2008. Featuring

  • Valuing the contribution of people with dementia
  • Disability, discrimination and dementia

Issue 4 - June 2008. Featuring

  • How do people with dementia see themselves?
  • Green in the colour
  • Peter Ashley – the first associate of Innovations in Dementia

Issue 3 - May 2008. Featuring

  • ThinkTank - a new way of involving people with dementia.
  • Video leaflets by and for people with dementia.
  • The computer project at a conference in Belfast.
  • 'Being Heard' in Westminster.

Issue 2 - April 2008. Featuring

  • What does 'identity' mean to you?
  • People with dementia using computers.
  • Helping the Metropolitan Police.
  • Share your experiences with us.

Issue 1 - March 2008. Featuring

  • What is Innovations in Dementia CIC?
  • Get involved with Innovations in Dementia.
  • Start making sense.
  • The rights of people with dementia.

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