David Truswell
Culture Dementia, UK
Biography
David has worked in community based mental health services in the UK for over thirty years developing services for people with complex care needs and enduring mental health problems in a career spanning the voluntary sector, local authority services, and the NHS.. From 2009 - 2011 he was the Dementia Implementation Lead for Commissioning Support for London, working with commissioners across London to improve dementia services. He is of Chair the Dementia Alliance for Culture and Ethnicity (www.demace.com) and an independent writer and researcher on dementia support and services for Black and minority ethnic communities, working with a number of projects and initiatives.
Abstract
Abstract : Raising awareness about vascular dementia in the African-Caribbean community in the London