The ACE approach: promoting well‐being and peer support for younger people with dementia
| Published date | 15 September 2010 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0503 |
| Date | 15 September 2010 |
| Pages | 41-50 |
| Author | Vivienne Davies‐Quarrell,Alan Higgins,Joan Higgins,Pat Quinn,Mo Quinn,Gary Jones,Linda Jones,Anthony Foy,Vilma Foy,Robert Marland,Pat Marland,Adrienne Powell,John Keady |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care |
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The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice Volume 5 Issue 3 September 2010 © Pier Professional Ltd
10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0503
The ACE approach: promoting
well-being and peer support for
younger people with dementia
Abstract
This article describes the evaluation of the ACE
club, a service for younger people with dementia
in North Wales. The evaluation was conducted by
the ACE club members and conducted through a
relationship-centred approach expressed through
the Senses Framework (achievement, belonging,
continuity, purpose, security, significance) (Nolan
et al, 2006). Members of the ACE club found the
sense of significance to be the most important
and meaningful ‘sense’ in helping to structure their
evaluation and use of the ACE club. The clinical
interventions outline is shared within the text to
help provide a grounded and inductively generated
practice structure. The funding of ‘normalising’
activities for younger people with dementia is an
area of dementia care that needs urgent attention.
Key words
ACE club, younge r people with dementia,
evaluatio n, relationship-ce ntred care, senses
framework
Introduction
‘I love it here, I don’t have to pretend, I can be myself.’
(Linda, aged 57, ACE club member)
Young onset dementia is traditionally ascribed to the onset
of dementia occurring before the age of 65 years (American
Psychiatric Association, 1994) and is an area of service
provision, specialist care practice and policy development
that is recognised as being in need of substantial
development both nationally (Alzheimer’s Society, 2006)
and internationally (Alzheimer’s Association, 2006). The
Vivienne Davies-Quarrell
Director of Services, Glen Devon, UK
Alan Higgins
Joan Higgins
Pat Quinn
Mo Quinn
Gary Jones
Linda Jones
Anthony Foy
Vilma Foy
Robert Marland
Pat Marland
Adrienne Powell
ACE club members, UK
John Keady
Professor of Older People’s Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work,
The University of Manchester, UK
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