The Dementia Carousel is a new experience which aims to provide Care Staff with a hands-on understanding of the challenges individuals with dementia face daily.

It will take staff through a series of experiential booths, designed to create cognitive challenges, confusion, and sensory overload, giving a person empathy towards what a person with Dementia may feel and experience.

The experience is about evoking an emotional response which will provide empathy when caring for a person with dementia.

The Seven booths of the carousel are:

• Orientation Booth
• Memory Maze
• Communication Carousel
• Sensory Overload Café
• Puzzle Odyssey
• Spatial Perception
• Empathy Lounge

The whole experience lasts 3hrs and there are several timeslots across the day at 9.15am, 10.15am, 11.15am, 12.15pm and 1.15pm.

Please be aware spaces are limited to 4 Staff per home and cannot all be on one session.

To book please email quality.innovation@essex.gov.uk

This training is currently only open to Residential Care Homes in the Essex County Council local authority area.