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Dementia Friends

Free training for organisations to become dementia friends.

Refugee Training & Orientation: A workbook for trainers

By Center for Applied Linguistics and the Cultural Orientation Resource Centre

The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is pleased to make this workbook available to trainers and other service providers working with refugees and immigrants.

Decolonising the Conversation around Diversity

By Umulkhayr Mohamed via ICO

Growing up, Chapter Arts Centre’s Anim18 Project Coordinator (and our FEDS trainee) Umulkhayr Mohamed thought that a career in film wouldn’t be a possibility for her. Ahead of our upcoming I.D. (Inclusion & Diversity) Screening Day, read her thoughts on what we should be doing to try and finally overcome this. A career in film … More

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Dementia-friendly screenings create a slice of normal life for people living with dementia, a chance to experience film in a relaxed and supported environment. Cinemas across the UK are providing screenings throughout the year, but World Alzheimer’s Month is an opportunity to highlight these events.

Dementia-friendly screenings are sometimes called relaxed screenings, though these can also be suitable for people with multiple sensory sensitivities or different conditions such as autism spectrum disorder or learning disabilities.

Screenings are adapted to make the environment more suitable for people living with dementia. Sometimes, simple adaptations can be enough for someone to experience a slice of ordinary life and enjoy a cinema experience with their companions.

Find out more about running dementia-friendly screenings here or check out the downloads on this page.

downloads

* Dementia-friendly screenings A guide for cinemas.pdf * FAN Access - Inclusive screenings - Dementia.pdf * Dementia friendly screening surveys.zip * Dementia friendly screening - information pack - template.docx

Resources

Dementia-friendly cinema at Tyneside

Designing a Dementia friendly website

Supporting a LGBT Person with Dementia

British cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a national shame

By Danny Leigh, The Guardian

The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism?

Mental Health Toolkit for Employers

By The Prince's Responsible Business Network

The ambition of this toolkit is to help your organisation – whether business, public sector or charitable – support the mental health and wellbeing of your employees. It will help you take positive actions to build a culture that champions good mental health and provide a greater understanding for how to help those who need more support.

#LightUpPurple UK resources

By #LightUpPurple

October 10th is a day for continued global mental health awareness, education and advocacy. The first WMHD was in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries. On this day, supporters gather to create more awareness and attention towards mental health, mental illness and … More

BFI NETWORK

By BFI

BFI NETWORK brings together the UK’s film agencies to discover, develop and fund new and emerging writers, directors and producers.

How the arts can help change attitudes to blindness

By The Guardian

Thinking creatively about formats such as Braille and audio description can help improve accessibility and perceptions about blindness

Subtitling and audio description

By ICO

To ensure the maximum number of people can benefit from watching films in your venue, you may wish to hold screenings with HOH subtitles (HOH stands for ‘Hard of Hearing’) or audio description, which serve Deaf or hard of hearing and partially sighted or blind audiences respectively. It’s important that cinemas are welcoming to all … More

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