Stephen Wey
senior lecturer in occupational therapy
York St John University
Stephen Wey has worked as an occupational therapist since the early 1990s and much of this has been in hospital and community settings working with people with dementia. He was part of a pioneering intensive home treatment and rehabilitation team for people with dementia and during this time was actively involved in pilots and evaluations of emerging assistive technology and some of the first telecare services. He has been an advocate for person-centred, strengths-led approaches rather than a risk/problems-led perspective and for enabling and rehabilitative approaches to dementia.