News from Dementia Voices and Peer Support Group (10am-12pm)
Get organised. This week we watched videos and shared ways of staying organised day to day...
Parvin (middle) with Ileen, Thelma, Hazel, Dennis (left to right) showed us her A5 calendar which she’s used for years to track a daily appointments, she’s so organised she told us she also uses it to know when the president of the US is in the country so she can join peaceful demonstrations. Good on you Parvin!
Sounds simple but... what is exactly is Dementia?
Which diseases cause dementia? How do they affect the brain? What symptoms do they lead to?
We watched this short but very informative introduction from Alzheimer’s Research UK that explains the essentials of a condition affecting 850,000 people across the UK today: