Empowering people with dementia: Rutherglen and Cambuslang Values History Project

Pearce, Jacqueline
Forsyth, Winn
Boyd, Robert
Jackson, Graham A.

¹Rutherglen Early Diagnosed Dementia Support (REDDS), Glassgow, UK
²(Retired) Rutherglen Community Carers, UK
³NHS Tayside, UK
⁴NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Leverndale Hospital, UK

Corresponding author: Graham A. Jackson, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow G53 7TU, Scotland Email: [email protected]

Jacqueline Pearce is a support worker with the Rutherglen Early Diagnosed Dementia Support (REDDS) group.

Winn Forsyth has recently retired from her post as Dementia Officer with Rutherglen Community Carers.

Robert Boyd is a Consultant Nurse in NHS Tayside.

Graham A. Jackson is a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist based in Glasgow.

Dementia 11(5):p 695-698, September 2012. | DOI: 10.1177/1471301211431364

Abstract

This article describes the development of a Values History project helping people with early stage dementia to prepare a statement of the things that are important in their lives in anticipation of when they are no longer able to articulate their views. The experience of preparing a Values History has been positively evaluated by people with dementia and their family carers, and other professionals have found them to be useful in ensuring that wishes about future care are met.