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…the UK who are living with dementia and other chronic health conditions improved green spaces: link workers refer and connect people to their local wildlife and wider activities including food growing, healthy cooking, wildlife gardening, environmental art and crafts, music workshops, and beekeeping singing: English National Opera (ENO) have partnered…

11/09/2018 @ 11:00am – 2:00pm – London Churches Social Action will be holding a training session on How to Run a Memory Café as an extension of their previous work on supporting people with dementia.  This will be run by Reverend Steve Morris. Participants will receive a free lunch and free copy of Steve’s book on the issue. If you wish to […]

…which promotes awareness of mental health and dementia in faith communities and in the wider community, with Caritas Westminster, the Catholic social action charity. The project has run a programme of mental health awareness sessions in in parishes across the Diocese of Westminster. “There is plenty of scope for this…

…for, or share their facilities with the whole community, just as Tower Hamlets Inter Faith Forum did from a local church building last week. From toddler groups to fitness classes, homeless shelters to employability programmes, community cafes to dementia-friendly groups the list of social action projects is as broad as…

…into voluntary sector leadership and management, where organisations can show an inability to deal with problems with staff and follow the practice of “Love, love, sack”. One piece of sound advice for employers with a caring brief comes from Tom Kitwood in his book ‘Dementia Reconsidered’ , who advocates living…

‘I’m not depressed any more. I have friends. I go out of my house. This class has made the difference: learning with fun and friends!’ – Learner Not only are socially isolated individuals more prone to depression, loneliness also increases the likelihood of mortality by 26%. Cases of clinical dementia…

04/12/2020 @ 10:30am – 1:00pm – NHS England’s LGBT Health Team is planning a virtual roundtable with the sector to discuss the issues affecting older LGBT people, including the current impacts of COVID-19. Presentations will include: Dr Michael Brady, National Advisor for LGBT Health Age UK – lived experiences of older LGBT people and local initiatives LGBT Foundation – dementia care […]

…help people look after their own health and prevent them developing health problems; also, how we tackle health inequalities) Ageing well (including how we look after frail older people and people with dementia) Cancer Cardiovascular and respiratory (diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels (including stroke) and lungs/breathing) Mental…

…because we no longer have the capacity to make certain important decisions ourselves. The facts speak for themselves. Every year, 225,000 people in the UK develop dementia. Every 90 seconds someone is admitted to hospital with an acquired brain injury. That’s why it’s so important to act now and plan…

We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Julie D’Souza Walsh from The Furnival, a community hub in Sheffield. Working largely with young people through the mentoring and therapeutic project ‘Cellar Space’, they have branched out more recently to include Creative English, after school clubs, a dementia café and a…