Salix Dementia Trust: Who We Are and What We Do
The Salix Dementia Trust is managed by its Board of Directors, elected annually by the membership:
Aileen Macdonald-Haak,BD,MSW,DipSW (Chair) studied theology and social work. She has worked with people with dementia in the community and in care homes and is a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Iona Community. She is married with two children and lives in Bishopbriggs, Scotland.
Barbara Sutton (Treasurer) is our resident atheist and interested amateur, with particular interest in the effects of power relations in the lives of vulnerable individuals.
George Cowie is an experienced worker in day care and home settings. His special skills include planning and carrying out activities tailored to each individual person with dementia. Perhaps uniquely, he is an expert on playing chess with people with dementia, from former Grand Masters to recreational players. He lives in Dundee and travels throughout Scotland. |
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The Company Secretary and Chief Executive is Constance M Tonge, BSc. Constance is a Quaker and former member of the Home Office Local Liaison Committee (Parole) at HMP Preston, who headed an inner-city dementia day-care centre for seven years, has been teaching dementia to care staff for twenty years, and now devotes her energies to the latter and to working with family carers and people with dementia. Her degree in pathology centrally informs her practice, and she has special interests in dementia with Lewy Bodies, hallucinations in dementia, and people with dementia and spirituality. She currently serves as a Governor of The Retreat, York - the Quaker foundation famous as the very first therapeutic mental hospital in the United Kingdom. She lives in Milnathort, Scotland.
We also have a small but committed membership.
Together, we bring our different philosophies to make a coherent whole, one in which the person with dementia is foremost. We consider ourselves quiet revolutionaries: our tagline, "changing the world for people with dementia", sums us up. (Margaret Mead famously said, "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world: it's the only thing that ever has!") Education is central to our understanding of how this can be achieved.
We have a number of projects, both ongoing and in development. Our projects tend to be small and innovative, focused on high quality and the ability to change in response to situations.
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