Alison is a Community Occupational Therapist that has worked in the Later life services since 1992, on mental health wards, a day hospital and the community of Middleton and East Manchester. Alison completed a Masters degree in Dementia Care at the University of Manchester in 2013. Since 2012 the OT service in Later life has been undertaking off road driving assessments, and made links with the driving assessment centre in Haydock, Lancashire. They completed an audit of the assessment that used and are developing a protocol for use in the memory assessment service.