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Learning Outcomes
In this assignment please refer to the following learning outcomes, and aim to demonstrate ability and skill across them in your submissions:
Understand the importance of social and health systems and networks in the experience of dementia
Critique and evaluate community responses to dementia
Critique and evaluate the role of formal support services

Assignment Brief
Overview
Create an online presentation evaluating the aims and achievements of a small scale community initiative working to enhance inclusion for people with dementia.
Step 1: Choose an initiative
In this module, we have explored the social ecology of dementia from a range of different perspectives. The community initiative you choose to research and appraise could promote the inclusion of people with dementia in a number of ways. Once you have picked an initiative, you should ensure you can find enough information about it to answer all the questions below and discuss your choice with your online tutor. In particular, you might want to think about the following questions:
What do we mean by ‘inclusion’ and why is it important?
How does the initiative you have chosen operationalise the concept of ‘inclusion’?
Is this a specialist service (ie just for people with dementia) or not?
How do you think the aims of the initiative actually result in social inclusion for people with dementia?
Do you think the initiative is successful in achieving its aims?
Step 2: Create a presentation evaluating your chosen initiative
Your presentation can be up to 10 slides, this can be a PowerPoint or any other presentation software you are familiar with. Please do not include any animations in the presentation.
Write a plan before you start, including your aim and subheadings for each slide, in order to organise your thoughts. Your presentation should include:
Aims of the initiative
Brief description of the initiative
Theory / research underpinning the initiative
How inclusion has been defined by this initiative
Involvement of people with dementia in designing and implementing the initiative
Generalisability of this initiative to other areas
Achievements / impact to date (your reflections on the methods and measures of evaluation)
How /whether the initiative works alongside health and social care services
Your reflections and critique
Step 3: Write an accompanying abstract
We are not going to ask you to present your slides in a traditional face-to-face style presentation; instead we would like you to write an accompanying abstract of 500 words.
Imagine you have been asked to present your findings at a conference. Prior to attending the conference, you are asked to provide an abstract summarising your presentation. An abstract is a summary of a larger piece of work. Its aim is to concisely report the key findings, and demonstrate your ability to carry out an unbiased and well reasoned evaluation.
You can see examples of lots of published abstracts here.
Summarising and Evaluating
Both your presentation and supporting abstract should demonstrate your ability to summarise and evaluate your findings to an audience.
Summarising
Presenting a summarised account of your findings is a key professional skill, different to those required to write more traditional essay style reports. It is important you organise and share information in a concise, impactful way. As always you will need to read widely, selecting and referencing credible sources. The challenge when summarising is to distill and extract key information and present what you feel are the main headlines. You should communicate in a concise manner without losing any key information.
Evaluating
Your overall evaluation will be included in your summary and it should provide a verdict on how well your chosen initiative meets the criteria of enhancing inclusion for people with dementia. As with all academic writing / presenting, your aim is to provide an unbiased judgement, backed by sound evidence, rather than offer an opinion.
Top Tip
We expect your presentation to have a clear introduction and conclusion. Your presentation should reference reliable sources and the aim is to present a well structured discussion supported by your abstract.
Please Note
Please carefully read the University guidelines on how to present and submit an assignment. It is important you reference using the Harvard system and follow the correct presentation guidelines – the full guide to Harvard referencing can be found in the Student Hub.
Throughout your presentation references should be presented on the slides as they would appear in text in an essay. A final reference list slide(s) should be added, with your references written out in full as they would appear in a reference list. The reference slide does not count towards your slide limit.
Your abstract should have no more than 10 references (although you may have additional references in the presentation). Please also reference your abstract using the Harvard system, as you would for any standard piece of academic writing. Include your abstract reference list in the same document, on a separate page to your abstract – your reference list does not count towards your word count.
Submit your abstract in Calibri, 12pt with 1.5 line spacing.
Include a covering slide with your student number and assignment title.
Avoid use of direct quotes – these generally are just offering a description or definition, whereas you need to present analysis and synthesis.
Word count or slide count for assignments includes everything you have written, excluding the reference list and covering page / slide.
Do not use abbreviations in your assignments.
Avoid use of acronyms – if you do use them, ensure the first use of each one also provides an initial explanation, for example, WHO (World Health Organisation).
Proofread your work carefully before submission to ensure clarity and consistency.
Ensure you pay close attention to these assignment guidelines, answering what has been asked of you and checking you are meeting the learning outcomes for the module – marks can easily be lost, particularly with incorrect referencing.
Word Count
Maximum 10 slides and a 500 word abstract (excluding reference list and covering slide / page)
submission of two files:
Presentation File: Powerpoint / other presentation software / PDF (exported from your presentation software)
Abstract: A Word document
Additional Assignment Guidance – Module 3 Systems & Ecologies
Create an online presentation evaluating the aims and achievements of a small scale community initiative working to enhance inclusion for people with dementia.

1. Review and evaluate the literature that underpins and provides a rationale for your selected small-scale community initiative. E.g what does the literature say about the rationale for and the effectiveness of dementia cafes? Do this from a general perspective. If you have selected a local initiative, you can then comment on how the aims and outcomes and implementation of it compare to the general literature.

2. Structure and sequence – The assignment brief includes a list of bullet points which offer a comprehensive list of what you should include in the presentation. You can use these to structure and sequence your slide show presentation. Apply these to the selected initiative – once again do this from a general perspective. If you have selected a local initiative, you can use this as a case study and in one of the slides comment on how it compares to general expectations of such initiatives

3. Slides – be careful not to ‘crowd’ these with too much text. (see above re: structure and sequence. Please note that there is no word limit for the slides.

4. Abstract – this provides you with the opportunity to give a narrative commentary to the presentation and to add analysis . In effect it is what you would have said had you been presenting the slide show to an audience. The word limit for the abstract is 500 words.

5. Confidentiality – Take steps to anonymise any information that could identify individuals

6. Be aware that you can contact your identified online tutor for guidance – your identified tutor will be the first marker for your assignments.
7. Academic requirements – General guidance re: academic style, literature searching, formatting and the Harvard system of referencing is available on the student hub and through online tutorials & also handout in previous modules.