Rosemary's Former Roles

Chairman of the Occupational Therapists in Private Practice

Founder Trustee for the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA)

Original steering group My Home Life

Trustee of The Relatives and Residents Association

Consultancy & Training - Occupational Therapy

Rosemary Hurtley Enterprises has a wealth of experience, using a diagnostic, interactive and developmental approach in:

• Specialist dementia care
• End of life care
• Re-ablement
• Care of older people practice development
• Activity provision diagnosis and guidance
• Integration of activity into care

“You don’t stop doing things because you grow old. You grow old because you stop doing things”

— Thora Hird

Some examples of consultancy and training topics include:

• Integrating activity into care - Therapeutic activities for Quality of Life for people with complex long term conditions and dementia / What Managers need to know about activities / Reminiscence and cognitive stimulation approaches
• Assessment of clients needs - advice for delivery of optimal person centred care, wellbeing and quality of life enrichment for residents with frailty
• Delivering person centred outcomes - Person centred culture analysis and diagnosis / Training needs analysis, activity provision for people at different stages of dementia
• Work-based learning courses - For behaviour change in helping organisations in the delivery of measurable culture change and implementation of practice in activity provision. Courses include - re-ablement and therapeutic environments, socio-therapeutic approaches  involving relatives (see 360 fwd website courses).
• Culture change management - Diagnostic review with action planning guidance – results in improved reputation, higher occupancy, more effective and engaged staff, involved relatives, increased efficiency savings, ability to make planned investment in leadership, management and staff development

Author

 Rosemary is an author as well. Her publications include the ‘The Successful Activity Co-ordinator’ and ‘Find the Right Care Home’ for Age Concern 2008 and ‘Insight into Dementia’ 2010, amongst others.

Rosemary also created 'Conversations that Matter; Breaking through Dementia', a powerful drama reconstruction to raise awareness and demonstrate a new way of communicating at a deeper emotional level with people experiencing dementia:

If you are interested in purchasing any of the above, please contact us.

Public Speaking

Rosemary has experience exhibiting and/or speaking at a variety of conferences and events. These include:

• Naidex exhibition with a footfall of 13,000 over 4 days 

• The NHS Expo 2013 Exhibition 2013

• English Community Care Association (ECCA) now Care England Annual Conference

• The Alzheimer’s Show London 2013

• CWR conferences on Dementia and spirituality

• National Care Forum

• College of Medicine

• Lancashire Care Association

• North Yorkshire Care Association

• Care Talk (Exhibition, journal and Awards)

• Kent Care Association conference

• CMM Learning Disability conference – Manchester

• Barclays Bank Care Home Owner Event (as shown photo below)

See Rosemary in action at the University of Birmingham 'Challenging Dementia'event by clicking the video below:

Rosemary Hurtley Fact Sheet

Registered Occupational Therapist                 Consultant MSc Gerontology

• Registered Occupational Therapist, who has maintained an interest in older people throughout her career
• Qualified at the Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy, Oxford
• University College Hospital, London
• Worked in the physical and psychiatric fields, developing specialist Care of the Elderly Occupational Therapy services in West Sussex
• Set up a National Demonstration Rehabilitation Centre in Horsham, Sussex
• Private Practice including:-
  • Developing activity provision in care homes
  • Co-ordinating activity provision for the care home groups 
  • Developing training packages
• Consultancy work with a number of charitable, private and statutory organisations including Surrey Social Services, the Alzheimer’s Society, British Heart Foundation, Help the Aged & BUPA
• Former Chairman of the Occupational Therapists in Private Practice Specialist Section (OTiPP)
• Set up a multidisciplinary therapy “one stop shop” services for older people with Sun Healthcare Group
• Masters degree in Gerontology at Surrey University
• Independent consultant, advisor and trainer for a range of organisations including:
  • The British Heart Foundation
  • Help the Aged
  • NIACE – National Organisation for Adult Learning
  • BUPA
  • The College of Occupational Therapists
  • Central and North West London Mental Health Trust
  • Friends of the Elderly

  • The Brendoncare Foundation

  • Elizabeth Finn

  • Sussex Health Care
•  Past contributor to:
  • The Relatives and Residents Association
  • The National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA)
  • The Health & Social Care Change Agent Team (CAT) for the Department of Health
  • Steering Committee of the National Coalition for Active Ageing
  • Coalition for Quality in Care
  • Fourth Age Learning Coalition
  • College of Occupational Therapists

Examples of achievements & roles:

·         Co-developed diagnostic quality improvement and governance assessment framework for    person centred outcomes and culture transformation (360 Standard Framework®)

·         Government advisor for Dignity 2006 ( Dept. of Health/SCIE) member of Change Agent Team

·         Co-developed and delivered modules for a multi-professional degree course in specialist care for older people with University of Surrey– (Elizabeth Care)

·         Working with lead management consultants in care home  forensic diagnostics and turn-around  guidance

·         Management of long term care assessments for insurance companies

·         Set up an American style “one-stop-therapy-shop” of therapy services and stroke unit in care homes

·         National Advisor to BUPA care homes ( Activities)