The event was held on June 22 at Venue 360 in Luton.
It featured presentations on themes from dementia prevention, new insights into functional cognitive disorder, primary care-led post diagnostic dementia care and challenges, priorities and opportunities of the COVID pandemic.
Service users and carers were also involved and shared their own journeys and experience.
The conference was chaired by Dr Aneeba Anwar, Associate Director of Medical Education & Clinical Lead for the county-wide Memory Assessment Service.
Other speakers on the day were:
• Professor Claudia Cooper, Professor of Older People’s Psychiatry at UCL Division of Psychiatry
• Dr Vanessa Raymont, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Director of Research and Development at the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Sebastian Crutch, Professor of Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre
• Dr Waleed Fawzi, Consultant Psychiatrist and Trust-wide Lead for Mental Health Care of Older People (MHCOP)
• Katherine Rothman, Head of Arts Therapies/ Dance Movement Psychotherapist ELFT
• Dr Sarah Griffiths. Senior Research Fellow UCL. Study Manager, Centre for Ageing Population
• Dr Jeremy Issacs, Consultant Neurologist. St Georges, Clinical Director- London Dementia Clinical Network
• Sarah Russell from Tibbs Dementia Foundation joined and highlighted the need of support for young people with dementia.
“I would like to thank all of our guest speakers and every colleague from across the Trust and partner organisations who took the time to attend,” said Dr Anwar.
“It was truly inspiring to see so many professionals gathered with a shared determination to use their professional skills and knowledge, individually and collectively, to further develop care for older people.”
