Rachael leads on PPIE for DeNPRU Exeter, ensuring that it is central to all our work and that experts by experience are enabled to contribute meaningfully. She mentors the PPIE co-leads, co-develops and facilitates the core Involvement Group and extended Involvement Network, and build links that help these groups evolve and thrive. She contributes expertise in accessibility and co-production.
Rachael co-founded Innovations in Dementia in 2007. She has a background in psychology and advocacy and is particularly interested in ways of working that enhances people’s day to day lives. She especially enjoys working with people with dementia in care homes, having begun her working life managing an advocacy project for care home residents with dementia.