A platform for dementia self-experience
A platform for dementia self-experience
What is it like to have dementia? This platform helps care professionals and informal carers answer this question by providing tools to understand the perspective of a person living with dementia. This platform has information on self-experience, as well as a range of self-experience scenarios and tools.
Self-experience
What is like to have dementia?
‘Self-experience’ is a method that is scientifically proven to be the best way to create empathy and real understanding as a means to change practice and potentially improve the quality of care.
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Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST)
What is the Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST)?
The INTenSE Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST) aims to provide health care professionals and other dementia care partners with tools and scenarios to employ the self-experience method in dementia care.
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End user stories
What do DST users think?
In our end-user stories, you can read more about how the DST can promote empathy and a better understanding of the experience of dementia in a variety of contexts.
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Do you want to experience what it’s like to have dementia?
A better understanding of the perspective of someone living with dementia is essential for providing person centered care. We developed this platform with the intention to support professionals working in dementia care to learn more about self-experience and how the self-experience approach may help to provide better care and learn from experiences from other professionals. The dementia simulation toolkit is central to this, which was developed through literature research and practical research based on the principles of co-design. This toolkit comprises many scenarios that can be used in training sessions to try to simulate symptoms experienced by people living with dementia.
