I-Can-Do: Developing Digital Accessibility For The Dementia Volunteer Service

随着病例数量的增加，痴呆症是一个关键的健康优先事项。在无法治愈的情况下，需要心理社会干预，特别是在早期阶段，以帮助人们尽可能长时间地保持健康、幸福和独立。支持痴呆症早期患者的挑战是在当地社区提供个性化和量身定制的活动，满足他们的兴趣和需求，不被视为耻辱，并允许他们做出他们认为有价值的贡献。IDoService提供了这样一个新颖和创新的计划。它支持最近被诊断为痴呆症的人通过将他们与当地志愿者服务联系起来，识别、参与和促进他们所在社区的社会活动。这项服务围绕着由幸福导师提供的核心三期计划而建立，该计划允许人们探索自己的优势和兴趣，了解当地有什么可用，并以安全和愉快的方式决定他们想要做什么。2022年，我们已经成功地与Age UK Salford一起测试了这项服务。我们现在建议开发一个交互式数字版本，使其更加用户友好和易于扩展。

With rising numbers of cases, dementia is a key health priority. With no cure, there is a need for psychosocial interventions, especially at the early stages, to help people maintain their health, wellbeing and independence as long as possible. The challenge for supporting people at the early stages of dementia is in providing an individualised and tailored offer of activities in their local community that meets their interests and needs, that is not perceived at stigmatising, and that allows them to make a contribution for which they feel valued.The IDoService offers such a novel and innovative programme. It supports people with a recent diagnosis of dementia in identifying, participating and contributing to social activities in their community by connecting them to local volunteer services. The Service is built around a core 3-session plan, delivered by the wellbeing mentor, which allows people to explore their strengths and interests, get to know what is available locally and to decide what they want to do in a safe and convivial way. We have successfully trialled the service with Age UK Salford in 2022. We propose now to develop an interactive digital version to make it more user-friendly and easily scalable.