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Coping with 'Brain Failure': Developing Care Capacity

A one-day CCC conference, taking place on Thursday, 21 September 2006, to examine key issues, including:

• Strategies for maintaining mental well-being
• Mental Capacity Act 2005: putting the Act into practice
• Dementias: research, caring, and public policy prospects

Presentations from the conference

• Dr June Crown [PDF]
• Toby Williamson [PDF]
• Joan Goulbourn [PDF]
• Nadine Schofield [PDF]

About the conference

CCC believes that the biggest challenge over the coming years for policy-makers in the field of long-term care will be the rising number of people with high dependency levels due to 'brain failure', as well as physical disability. This challenge is demonstrated by the findings of CCC's 2006 census of over 32,000 care home residents: the census revealed that 64% of the care home residents surveyed were confused and that 24% were immobile and incontinent and mentally impaired. (You can find out more about the census results here).

The conference will therefore look at the important policy implications of 'brain failure', and in particular the role that the Mental Capacity Act 2005 can play. The conference is also designed to raise interdisciplinary awareness of this challenge and its implications, as well as to examine the science and demographics behind it.

Where and when?

The conference will take place on Thursday, 21 September 2006 at:

The Novartis Foundation
41 Portland Place
London
W1B 1BN

A map with details of how to find is available here.

Who should attend?

A feature of past CCC events has been the quality of the interdisciplinary exchange, something which has depended on the participation of not only CCC members but also other stakeholders and others interested in the long-term care of older people. We would therefore encourage you to participate in this important event. The conference offers you the opportunity to exchange ideas and to meet other professionals from across a range of disciplines. It is particularly aimed at:

• Actuaries, independent financial advisers
• Care home managers and owners, domiciliary care providers
• Primary care teams, Consultant nurses, General Practitioners, Geriatricians, Gerontologists
• Local authority commissioners, Directors of adult services
• Pharmacists
• Policy-makers
• Solicitors

N.B. The conference is open to CCC members and non-members alike.

Programme

N.B. Please note that the programme may be subject to change.

Profiles of the Speakers

Dr Clive Bowman Chairman, CCC Clive Bowman has been Medical Director of BUPA Care Services since 2000 and presently chairs CCC. Previously Clive was a Consultant Physician for 15 years and had an academic appointment at the University of Bristol. Clive has been interested in aspects of long-term care for some 20 years and has contributed to many working parties, policy and professional groups. He is particularly interested in the changing needs of people entering care and developing innovative systems that can develop standards.
Rita Carter Medical Journalist Rita Carter is a full-time medical writer contributing to, among others, The Independent, New Scientist, Daily Mail and Telegraph. She was twice awarded the Medical Journalists' Association prize for outstanding contribution to medical journalism. Rita Carter was born in the UK and currently resides in Ashford, Kent.
Dr June Crown CBE Inquiry into Mental Health & Well-being in Later Life June Crown's career has been in public health medicine and she has served as Area Medical Officer in Brent and Harrow, Director of Public Health in Bloomsbury and Director of the South East Institute of Public Health. She was President of the UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine from 1995 to 1998. June was Chair of Age Concern England from 1998 to 2002 and has been a Trustee of Help the Aged since 2003. She now serves as Chair of the Inquiry into Mental Health & Well-being in Later Life.
Anne Edis President, Solicitors for the Elderly Anne Edis TEP is a Solicitor, freelance lecturer and consultant specialising in elder client law and issues in and around mental capacity. She has practised in both the public and private sector and most recently was a Senior Solicitor for Adult Social Services for Leicester City Council. She is a member of STEP, President and founder member of Solicitors for the Elderly; joint author of the Elderly Client Handbook (2nd edition) and a member of the editorial board of Elderly Client Advisor. She is a member of the Department for Constitutional Affairs forum on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She is also a Charity Trustee and actively involved in the Hospice Movement.
Joan Goulbourn The Public Guardianship Office Joan Goulbourn has been involved in Court of Protection work for 27 years, having started at the Official Solicitor’s Department and seen the current PGO arise from various other offices and name changes. Joan has done receivership casework at all levels, trained staff and at one time was the Public Trust Office visitor for its Trust Division clients. Joan worked on the Mental Capacity Bill during its passage through Parliament and is now working on implementation of the Mental Capacity Act.
Professor John Hardy Director, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Ageing, USA Professor John Hardy is a geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease. He has been the Head of the Neurogenetics Laboratory, National Institute of Ageing (USA) since 2001 and is also the Visiting Professor at the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies (University College London). His work on Alzheimer's disease began whilst at the Swedish Brain Bank in Umea. He later worked on genetic studies of the disease from 1985 when he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at St. Mary's Hospital, Imperial College. In 1992, he took the Chair of Alzheimer's Research at the University of South Florida and then in 1996 he moved to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, as Consultant and Professor of Neuroscience. He won the MetLife, the Allied Signal and the Potamkin Prize for his work in describing the first genetic mutations, in the amyloid gene in Alzheimer's disease, in 1991.
Nadine Schofield National Lead, Older People's Mental Health Programme, Care Services Improvement Partnership Nadine Schofield is the National Lead, Older People's Mental Health Programme, Care Services Improvement Partnership. Nadine has a background in mental health nursing dating back to 1985. She has been involved in the implementation of the Service Development Guide Everybody's Business. In 2002 she co-founded (and currently Co-Chairs), the North West Dementia Forum, a not-for-profit multidisciplinary movement committed to the celebration and dissemination of good practice in dementia care.
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood Hon President, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Scotland Stewart Sutherland was been raised to the peerage as Baron Sutherland of Houndwood in 2001. He was knighted in 1995, inducted into the Order of the Thistle in 2002, and has served as principal of the University of Edinburgh, as well as in a number of other academic posts, including vice-chancellor of the University of London and Professor of History & Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London. He is currently the Provost at Gresham College, London, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He chaired the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly in the late 1990s, which examined the options for a sustainable system of funding of long-term care for older people. He is also the Hon President of Alzheimer's & Dementia, Scotland.
Toby Williamson Department for Constitutional Affairs Toby Williamson is working for the Civil Service as Stakeholder & Communications Manager for the Mental Capacity Implementation Programme at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, supporting the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. He is there on secondment from his employer, the Mental Health Foundation. The Mental Health Foundation is a UK-wide charity that works in the fields of mental health and issues affecting people with learning disabilities. Toby was Head of Policy at the Foundation and also managed its programme of research and development in adult mental health. While at the Foundation Toby was Co-Chair of the Making Decisions Alliance which successfully campaigned in support of the Mental Capacity Act. Prior to working at the Foundation Toby worked in adult mental health services, both in the voluntary and statutory sectors, setting up and managing housing, resettlement and outreach services for people with severe and enduring mental health problems living in the community.