Live independently at home – Pop up Home from Home Stranraer

As part of Wigtownshire Health Social Care action plan, working in partnership with Loreburn Housing Association and a range of key partners, established an exciting new initiative, A pop up home to home, with the aim to promote awareness to community service users how their home can be adapted to support independent living for people with dementia, Sensory impairment, and the elderly.

Interactive Television

 

Speaking Microwave

Interactive Television

  With the success  and interest shown of this  identified  initiative ,the home viewing has now been extended to the end of April, to enable further opportunity  for service users and service organisations to view the range of equipment, interactive technology and communication tools to enable people to live a safe and independent life

 

Speaking Microwave

The home can be booked for a tour guided visit and introduction to the resources available and their use 

To book a guided visit, or to find out further information  please contact Julie Robertson ,Building Healthy Communities Health Support Worker / Wigtownshire Health & Wellbeing Team 

Locality office Victoria Place Stranraer

Email: Julieannerobertson@nhs.net

DGPAN - Participatory Appraisel Training, Wigtownshire - 24th -28th April 2017

Dumfries and Galloway Participatory Appraisal Network ( DGPAN ) is providing training for anyone with a remit or interest in engaging with local people to find out views and Ideas The Network is keen for people from local communities to become PA Practitioners


What is Participatory Appraisal?

• A method of conducting  action research
• A tool kit of approaches and methods that can be used to engage and help local people and communities to work together, find out about what people feel about there communities and develop potential solutions.
• Allows people to contribute in a way they are comfortable and to a level and extent they choose
• It is involving and enjoyable with immediate feedback  

What does it do ?

• Identifies and captures the diversity of local perceptions and needs  
• Encourages individuals and communities to share and analyse views on issues within their community ,Most of which influences services and local decision making

Training been offered - Free for participants based on the following requirements:

To attend the training in full - this involves 3 days ( Mon24th, Tue 25th and final day 28th April)

Wed 26th  &   Thurs 27th April   are allocated for delegated groups attending training, to organise a suitable time to meet and carry out a short  local PA community exercise together as a team  to  experience using the tools and skills trained in, and reflect back their experience and learning from the exercise on the last day of training  28th April 2017

To obtain agreement from your line management /and or Volunteer Organisation to attend PA training ,and be an active member of the Network , this will involve attending regular Network meetings and carrying out at least one piece of PA work for the Network per year .

For further information  for this training contact- Murdo Macleod :Email murdo.macleod2@nhs.net
                                                                                                           Tel : 01776700632
For further information about the DGPAN  network please contact  PA Coordinator Karen Lewis
                                                                                                           Tel 01387269161