Libby Price is co-founder and executive director of The Filo Project, an award winning community interest company providing small group day care in the community to older people with early to moderate dementia.

The Filo Project service operates from the intimate setting of a host’s own home, providing a meaningful day in which people have the time and space to enjoy quality social interaction in an environment in which they feel valued. Most clients have lost confidence and become socially isolated owing to their memory frailties. Positive outcomes are achieved and the gentle framework of care has proved highly successful with both clients and carers too who welcome regular and extended respite care. Since starting up 7 years ago The Filo Project has enjoyed continual and rapid growth, employing 55 hosts across the southwest of England with plans to roll out nationally soon.