Penny Johns

Penny is a dementia practitioner working at Jewish Care. With a PG Cert Person-Centred Dementia Studies, Worcester University Association for Dementia Studies, she completed the Expert Practice programme, delivering a cycle of FITS into Practice (Focused Intervention Training and Support) as a Dementia Practice Development Coach. Leading the implementation of the DementiAbility approach within Jewish Care and first DementiAbility accreditations in the UK, she also trained in-house team of DementiAbility Champions to embed and sustain practice in the homes. She was formerly Director of Learning at Montessori Centre International with an interest in Montessori for dementia. Lived experience of dementia as a carer for my mother.