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This paper describes an innovative undergraduate educational initiative called the Time for Dementia programme. It was developed to improve the knowledge, attitudes and skills in dementia among healthcare students. Time for Dementia involves pairs of healthcare students (medical, paramedic, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals) visiting a person with dementia and their carer in their homes over a period of 2 years. The aim of the programme is to enable students to learn with people with dementia and their carers-recognising that people with dementia have unique expertise derived from their experiences. Their personal narratives offer students a unique insight into the subjective experiences of dementia.

Rescue Team) members and their families were for the next disaster. Background: Turkey is a land of earthquakes and a major earthquake in the Marmara region is expected in the near future. Despite this fact, people, including volunteer disaster workers, have low levels of awareness regarding risks and have limited interest in preparedness. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, and the study participants were the UMKE (Ulusal Medikal Kurtarama Ekibi -National Medical Rescue Team) members working in the Marmara region. UMKEs are volunteer medical rescue teams. Data collection tools were a questionnaire involving socio-demographic information, and a Disaster Preparedness Checklist (Tezgider et al, 2013). Results: A total of 105 volunteers participated in the study. Of them 53 (50,5%) were women and 52 were (49,5%) men. The mean age was 32 29 ± 7 19; 55 (52,4%) of the participants had personally experienced a disaster, and 62 (59%) worked actively in a disaster. The most common preparedness activities that the participants have taken were; learning the phone numbers of emergency services (N = 96, 91,4%), knowing local institutions providing information about disaster preparedness (N = 95, 90,5%), having information about residential usage license of current residence (N = 95, 90,5%). The least common preparedness activities were; obtaining information on disaster preparedness activities of neighborhood units (N = 82, 78,1), obtaining information on disaster preparedness activities of district governorship (N = 82, 78,1), obtaining information regarding disaster preparedness activities of the municipality (N = 78, 74,3%). Conclusion: These findings indicate that, although volunteers are highly motivated to engage in rescue activities as a 'saver', neither them, or their families are interested in disaster risk reduction in pre-disaster period.

Aim Emergency medical service (EMS) managers are responsible for organisational tasking. In this they are dependent on the knowledge possessed by their ambulance clinicians (ACs). Knowledge in EMS may be described as embracing formal education, protocol dependent and containing tacit experienced-based dimensions. However little is known about EMS managers' approach to this knowledge. The aim of the study was therefore to identify the types of knowledge that Swedish EMS managers considered desirable in their ACs. Methods Thirty-six EMS managers participated in a modified Delphi study. Twenty-six sub-categories emerged in the first openended questionnaire. Following the EMS managers were encouraged to rate each sub-category, and the ten with the highest mean were interdependently ranked in the final round. Results The sub-categories covered knowledge related to; contextual aspects, medical and holistic assessments, formal education and organisational issues. Eventually, the sub-category 'Knowledge to assess the patient's situation from a holistic perspective' was the highest ranked, followed by 'Medical knowledge to assess and care for different diseases' and 'Knowledge to be able to care for critically ill patients'. Conclusion The EMS organisations' primary focus is on providing emergency medical care and treatment. Hence, the present result may have impact on this in order to cover more complex types of knowledge, addressing essentially medical care, contextual aspects and nursing. The boundaries between these may sometimes be elusive, challenging the ACs to balance these areas of knowledge in a complex context. Conflict of interest We declare no conflict of interest.