3. Who we are
• Founded in 1851
• Established as a national museum in 1986
• The only national museum in England outside
London
• Seven iconic venues
• Museum service for Liverpool and Merseyside
• The region’s largest cultural organisation
• National responsibility
• International remit
7. The House of Memories promotes
the need and value for
compassion, respect and dignity in
care to achieve better health and
wellbeing, and support for people
living with dementia
8. The approach is the first of its kind
in the UK enabling museums,
health care and housing providers
to work together to deliver an
imaginative and accessible ‘whole
community’ dementia awareness
experience.
9.
10. Dementia in the United Kingdom
•Over 800,000 people in UK
diagnosed with dementia
•Financial cost of dementia to
UK is over £23 billion
•Only 40% of people with
dementia receive an early
diagnosis
•In less than ten years the
number of people with
dementia in UK will reach
1 million
11. House of Memories
•To date more than 5,000
participants in Liverpool,
Bury, Salford, Sunderland,
Newcastle, Birmingham,
Leicester and Nottingham
•Externally funded by Dept of
Health and local health and
social housing partners.
•Content designed to enable
greater understanding of the
value of a person’s history
and life experience
•Activities include an
interactive training day and
new resources for settings
16. Key Outcomes for Participants
•Confident to try new
approaches with those their
care for.
•Demonstrable shift in their
cognitive and emotional
understanding of dementia and
its implications for those
effected.
•Enhanced capacity to assess
their own attitudes and
performance to cultivate an
appropriate care relationship.
•Majority believed that their
knowledge, skills and access to
resources to carry out memory
activities in settings had
increased significantly
18. “The House of Memories is an exceptional
project…. It is fantastic that the cultural
sector is involved in work on dementia; it is
a great collaboration. . . The work is
critically important in supporting our drive to
create more dementia-friendly
communities.”
Norman Lamb MP: Minister of State for
Care and Support 2013
19. My House of Memories 2014
A digitised memory app for people with
dementia, their families and carers.
20. The Value
• To create a legacy for
House of Memories
• To support older
people’s access to
new technology
• To tackle social
isolation with aging
communities
22. The Commissioning Process
• Core aim to produce
a dementia friendly
product
• Creation of an
innovative and
inclusive design brief
• Appointment of
external digital design
agency
23. User Led Design
• Co designed with people
living with dementia and
their carers
• Collaboration with
Innovate Dementia
(Liverpool John Moores
University)
• Partnership with Mersey
Care NHS Trust - Mossley
Hill Memory Group
24. My House of Memories
• Includes hundreds of inspirational ‘living
history’ museum objects.
• Multi-sensory experience: music, sound
effects and videos
• Easy to use design - touch screen
controls
• Activities to do together
• A ‘read aloud’ option for people who
prefer to listen
• A toolkit for carers with additional
memory activities