Neil Mapes has a long and successful track record in establishing and supporting innovate service design and delivery of services for people living with dementia. His engaging and personal writing has featured in academic journals, books and national policy papers. He is an exceptional facilitator and brings a fresh approach to work settings and teams called which has been influenced by Action Learning, advocacy principles and Nancy Kline’s work called ‘Time to Think’.
Neil can help your organisation:
- Design a new service for people living with dementia
- Improve your existing services
- Facilitate effective team working and peer programmes
- Produce written information for people living with dementia, their families and the professionals who support them
- Evaluate your services
- Consult with people living with dementia on proposed changes to services
To discuss specific consultancy offers please email neil@dementiaadventure.co.uk or call 01245 269 769. For more information on Neil’s work, including recommendations from colleagues, please visit Neil’s LinkedIn page
“Neil is a thought leader and pioneer in the field of designing effective interventions with people who have neuro-degenerative conditions and he specialises in developing approaches that do not rely on psychoactive medicines. He has contributed significantly to the success of the 6th UK Dementia Congress and presented awards at our achievements ceremony. I have a direct and personal experience of working with Neil and he recently co-facilitated a very successful residential arts and activity workshop for our group of dementia activists and advocates in the Lake District. His work with us resulted in the inspirations from our activities being translated into the core materials which have since been used to produce a travelling exhibition road-show and to make a film about living with dementia. His approaches have been independently validated and the research base has been exhaustively peer-reviewed. He has demonstrated that arresting and delaying the onset and progress of dementia conditions can be achieved, that individual independence and self-efficacy can be prolonged, and that significant savings can become available to health and social care commissioners when these approaches are incorporated in their portfolio of care solutions. I can recommend Neil without hesitation to any organisation or project effort that would benefit from re-imagining life with dementia.”