Intercultural Support

A video clip in English about the South Asian Dementia Cafe, which usually operates on a fortnightly basis but has been replace by phone calls during the pandemic

EachStep Blackburn is a pioneering £5m dementia care service that provides specialist respite, residential, nursing and end of life care. Community Integrated Care has strived to ensure that our home is inclusive of the entire local community. We've formed a thriving partnership with the leading South Asian community group, One Voice. This has seen...

Booklet which provides background information about the South Asian community in the UK, explains the cultural context of caring, covering for example gender issues, religious practices, challenges and barriers experienced by BME carers of people with dementia and issues related to interpretation. It also contains background information about...

Our Trust recently launched a film specifically aimed at South Asian families affected by dementia. The DVD seeks to address cultural issues, that previous information has not covered, which play a crucial role in families being able to cope with a dementia diagnosis. The gaps in information relate to the South Asian community and the Trust has...

The making of the ‘Purani Yaadein’ (Old Memories) film was inspired by personal experiences of our team; whose parents arrived in the UK in the 1960’s from South Asia to fill the labour shortage in the textile industry. We wanted to record the ‘Purani’ (old) memories of people of that early generation as part of this project, which also included...

During the COVID-19 pandemix, as routine is important to people with dementia, we have replaced our fortnightly South Asian Dementia café, which is on First and Third Thursday of every month from 1-3pm, with ‘Telephone Drop-in’ where we use this slot to answer any questions and to provide emotional support over telephone to all our café members

Touchstone’s BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) Dementia Service provides specialist support to people living with memory problems or a diagnosis of dementia and their carers from ethnic minorities. Our aim is to raise awareness of dementia within BME communities by breaking down the barriers that exists about dementia and bring it out into the open...