Category: Dementia Action Alliance
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Help Rochester Cathedral become dementia friendly
Rochester Cathedral is looking for your help! Go to the Cathedral on Saturday 2 September from 2pm; enjoy tea and cakes and have a look around, then join them for Evensong at 3.15pm and tell them how they can make it Dementia Friendly. Chris Bostock, Anna Chaplain at the Cathedral, is…
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Our Dementia Diary
Christina Lee reviews one woman’s powerful story of sharing a life with a partner living with dementia. Since getting involved with the Rochester Literature Festival and talking to families of people with dementia at the Memory Café, I decided to read up on dementia to learn more about it and…
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Rochester’s Dementia Memory Cafe
As you know, we’re greatly involved with both the Kent and Medway Dementia Action Alliances, which has informed our Memory Box project in adapting to different groups of people telling us their stories. Dementia Memory Cafes are a growing resource across the country for people living with dementia and their…
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What is Creative Care?
The wonderful Christina takes a closer look at the reasons why the Cultural Arm of the Kent DAA created and delivered the Creative Care Expo. Creative Care and Dementia The Cultural Arm of the Kent Dementia Action Alliance hosted a very successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone in early February,…
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Proving what we all knew at the Creative Care Expo
We’re fresh from our first activity of the year, the successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone, where practical experience confirmed once again that arts and culture play a significant part in wellbeing.
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Creative Care Expo
Along with many other arts, culture and community organisations, we’re delighted to be taking part in the Kent Dementia Action Alliance’s Creative Care Expo in January.
Rochester Literature Festival 