'Intensive Interaction in Dementia': some useful links

At our most recent Leeds Intensive Interaction Regional Support Group meeting (see my Blog of 25/03/19 about Regional Support Groups), I asked which issues attendees would like to discuss at out next meeting. One person asked if we could discuss 'Intensive Interaction and Dementia'. 

So, in the spirit of community action that defines our Intensive Interaction group members, one of our members (Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Lynnette Menzies) then very kindly sent me a list of links about this very issue i.e. 'Intensive Interaction in Dementia' and about 'Adaptive Interaction' (see my Blog of 27/11/17 about Adaptive Interaction and its relationship to Intensive Interaction. This Blog also acknowledges the Intensive Interaction work of Charly Harris and Dr Emma Wolverson published in the Journal of Dementia Care).

There is some really interesting and useful stuff here, and we plan to revisit this same issue at an upcoming RSG group meeting.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0180395 - a full paper: 'Communicating with people living with dementia who are nonverbal: The creation of Adaptive Interaction' published on the PLOS|One online research journal.

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-28/december-2015/giving-voice-people-advanced-dementia - 'Giving a voice to people with advanced dementia' by Amanda Henwood & Maggie Ellis published in 'The Psychologist' magazine.

https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/advanced-dementia-and-end-of-life-care/advanced-dementia/communication.asp - a piece on 'Communication in advanced dementia' on the website of  the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/stories/2019/dementia/ - 'Living a good life with dementia: 
New methods of communicating with and entertaining people living with dementia' a piece from St Andrews (if you scroll down you can access a number of useful YouTube clips).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ho4b89H-VM - a long YouTube piece including Maggie Ellis giving a lecture on 'How dementia helps us to better understand our common humanity'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlHAIJmfKg -  a radio interview with Dr Maggie Ellis on 'Adaptive Interaction'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JmzNEQZjk - a short STV report on 'Reaching people with severe dementia: Adaptive Interaction in action'.

I would also like to point people to the 'Intensive Interaction in Dementia' Facebook Group available at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1142169855812944/ - which has some truly brilliant stuff on there - including some extremely powerful and highly instructive video posted by Rachel Woodhouse. I implore you to join and contribute to this group if this is an area that is of personal or professional interest to you. 

So thanks so much Lynnette, and please feel free to comment on any personal experiences you have had using Intensive Interaction with people with dementia - I think that this a profoundly under researched area where the power of Intensive Interaction/Adaptive Interaction is, as yet, vastly under realized.