Dementia Support Line
Recruitment and ethical considerations for co-production
Important things to think about when planning activity and working together with people who have dementia.
- Co-production for dementia
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- Dementia-friendly co-production
In all cases
Follow our guidance on how to recruit people affected by dementia and ethical considerations.
Consent
- follow informed and process consent approaches: allow people to withdraw or take a break, if they wish.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Organisational values and ground rules for groups may help to ensure that taking part is all about respecting diversity, people’s views and cultures and acting with honesty, trust and openness, free from defensiveness and blame when exploring what could be better.
- Co-production can be a useful method for
- Understanding how and why some people are experiencing barriers or having poorer experiences of services
- Deciding how and why to make changes that matter to service users
- Co-production can be a useful method for
- consider how you can create opportunities at all stages of the work for different people to use their abilities to be involved, even where their dementia is more progressed.
- Don’t only think in terms of a single group of people fully involved from start to finish of the project.
