{"id":23814,"date":"2018-01-26T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=23814"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:11:49","slug":"womens-institute-welcomes-dementia-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/26\/womens-institute-welcomes-dementia-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Institute welcomes Dementia Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXPERIENCES and misconceptions about Dementia was the topic of conversation at the latest meeting of Birchgrove Women&#8217;s Institute.<br \/>\nAlthough the organisation was formed during the First World War, the Birchgrove branch<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was established in 2012 to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> provide companionship, educational opportunities and to campaign on community issues. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s 7.30pm, Cardiff\u2019s streets are dark but Emma Gammon, Vice President of Birchgrove WI, brightly welcomes old and new members to the first meeting of the year in St. Thomas&#8217;s Church Hall on Pantbach Road.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23819\" style=\"width: 681px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23819\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497.jpg\" alt=\"Birchgrove Women's Institute Committee prepare for their first meeting of the year\" width=\"681\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23819\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497.jpg\" alt=\"Birchgrove Women's Institute Committee prepare for their first meeting of the year\" width=\"681\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/WIcomittee-e1516977567497-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/noscript> Birchgrove Women&#8217;s Institute have monthly, inclusive meetings. Credit: \u00a0Birchgrove WI<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The agenda is full of pleasantries, a vote on what cultural issue the Women\u2019s Institute will rally behind this year and a guest speaker. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEveryone, this is Barbara.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHi Barbara,\u201d around 40 members chime.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barbara Wills, who works at Ty Enfys Care Home in Pentwyn, is a Dementia Friends champion. This means she can put on workshops to educate people about dementia, and encourage others to become Friends too. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dementia Friends is an initiative by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society, which hopes to educate people about dementia and how to support those living with the disease.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting introductions, and a large blue file, aside, the group play bingo. Instead of numbers, members circle words which match the sentences Ms Wills reads out. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDementia starts from&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDementia is not a natural part of <\/span><b>ageing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDementia is <\/span><b>progressive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2026 Oh, sorry. I gave you that one.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23815\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23815\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Dementia bingo card, the first activity at the event\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy.jpg 871w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23815\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Dementia bingo card, the first activity at the event\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy.jpg 871w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/bingoBG-copy-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/noscript> Dementia bingo was the first activity at the event last night (January 25)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone laughs. This special bingo is designed to debunk common misconceptions. The group establish dementia is not just because of age. If fact, there are cases of 20-year-olds suffering with the disease, though this is rare, Ms Wills explains.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five volunteers are needed for the next task. Without hesitation, women rush to the front and proudly take their place.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a line, backs against the wall, the women aged from 30-something to 50-onwards, smile and joke with one another while Ms Wills hands them cards. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each volunteer is given a character and told to step forward if they are able to complete various tasks. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStep forward if you can make cheese on toast,\u201d Ms Wills began.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you can have relations with your partner,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you can have a part time job working on a checkout.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 questions, and 10 chances to step forward, pass by. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cate Hopkins leads the way: her seven steps equate to a pretty competent character. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m just competitive,\u201d she says. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others had only taken one, two, three and four steps. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms Wills urges the five to read their cards aloud so the whole group could see why they stepped when they did. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou are 64 years old. You have had dementia for six years.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou are 64 years old. You have had dementia for six years.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The others? Also 64 years old, and had suffered from dementia for six years. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results are met with \u201cahh\u201d and \u201coh\u201d, as chatter fills the room. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The exercise demonstrates that perception is everything. Everyone has different experiences of dementia and this influences their ideas of what a sufferer is capable of.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cImagine your brain is a collection of fairy lights: Dementia is like when some of lights begin to dim, or a bulb here and there stops working. For each person, these lights go off at different times,\u201d Ms Wills continues.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do with, not for: a phrase that repeats itself several times through the night. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The evening focuses around the importance of providing tools and support for dementia sufferers, so they can still be independent. They often become deskilled as friends and family overcompensate.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Ms Wills finishes the session, she offers an anecdote. \u201cAt a care home in England, a dementia sufferer was frustrating staff and residents by constantly tapping. Nurses felt bad about not being able to help her, as the woman\u2019s verbal skills has deteriorated, and other residents found it annoying. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis kept happening and no one understood why, until her granddaughter returned from Australia, where she had been living. When nurses asked what the tapping was about, the granddaughter laughed and explained that during the war, her grandmother worked on the enigma\u2026 She had just gone back to her twenties and was at work.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event touched many. After the talk, members share tea, cake and their personal experiences with dementia. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought of my nana in her later years: her confusion when my newborn brother cried, thinking it was her son. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23817\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23817\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal.jpg\" alt=\"Birchgrove Women's Institution calendar of month meet ups for 2018\" width=\"653\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal.jpg 763w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-500x365.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-293x214.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23817\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal.jpg\" alt=\"Birchgrove Women's Institution calendar of month meet ups for 2018\" width=\"653\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal.jpg 763w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-500x365.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/01\/BirchgroveWIcal-293x214.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/noscript> Birchgrove Women&#8217;s Institution calendar of month meet ups for 2018. Credit: Birchgrove WI<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find out more about the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birchgrovewi.org.uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Birchgrove Women\u2019s Institute<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Become a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dementiafriends.org.uk\/WEBArticle?page=what-is-a-friend#.Wmr1bmacai4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dementia Friend<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXPERIENCES and misconceptions about Dementia was the topic of conversation at the latest meeting of Birchgrove Women&#8217;s Institute. Although the organisation was formed during the First World War, the Birchgrove branch was established in 2012 to provide companionship, educational opportunities and to campaign on community issues. It\u2019s 7.30pm, Cardiff\u2019s streets are dark but Emma Gammon, Vice President of Birchgrove WI, brightly welcomes old and new members to the first meeting of the year in St. Thomas&#8217;s Church Hall on Pantbach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":23819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[5386,5387,233,5388,473,927,5361],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birchgrove","tag-ageing","tag-alzheimers-society","tag-birchgrove","tag-dementia","tag-heath","tag-women","tag-womens-institute"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women\u2019s Institute welcomes Dementia Friends - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/26\/womens-institute-welcomes-dementia-friends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women\u2019s Institute welcomes Dementia Friends - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXPERIENCES and misconceptions about Dementia was the topic of conversation at the latest meeting of Birchgrove Women&#8217;s Institute. 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