Growing Old Grace-fully, together with Age Friendly Leeds, are hosting two online sessions to support people to become Dementia Friends.
This online training is aimed at all those who want to make their communities and parishes more dementia friendly, for the families and friends of people living with dementia and anyone with caring duties. It also works for anyone who simply wants to understand dementia and learn better how to support and communicate with people living with it.
The two stand alone sessions are as follows:
- Monday 10th March 2:30 – 3:30 pm
- Tuesday 29th April, 7:00 – 8:00pm.
The two sessions are the same. Each one is open to all, but places are limited so please book one of the slots by emailing growing.old.gracefully@dioceseofleeds.org.uk
Become a Dementia Friend
Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative, see www.dementiafriends.org.uk.
It helps by raising awareness and understanding, so that people living with dementia can continue to live in the way they want. Too many people affected by dementia feel that society fails to understand the condition they live with.
A Dementia Friend is somebody that learns about dementia so they can help their community, workplace or family be more dementia friendly.
You can become a Dementia Friend by attending either of the two training sessions, do book today.
Online Resources
We have many online resources to support parishes be dementia friendly and these are found here:
www.growingoldgracefully.org.uk/dementia
In October we held an online session Spiritually Accompanying People with Dementia led by Rev. Dr. Joseph Cortis, co-author of Journeying Together: accompanying people living with dementia. The video and a summary of the session is available online here:
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