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This is your page - A DIY Dementia Meeting Centre for your local community here

 

Contents

  1. The priority is to create more DMCs
  2. It is important to focus on the nature of DMCs
  3. Background info
  4. Dementia resources



1  The priority is to create more DMCs:


1.1  MEETINGDEM   Your opportunity to participate in UK DMCs page here   


and to develop those few which have started.


1.2   Dementia Meeting Centres - synopsis  - here


1.3     9 Sept 2016

  1. This page gives the reader some hitherto unavailable insight into the UK dimensions of the international project.  Social media resources have only been recently exploited and to a limited extent.  

  3. The first DMC at Droitwich has a website which tells you what might happen but not what has happened. 

  5. The News page tells you that the Centre was formally launched on 20th November 2015.  

  7. The Newsletter page has not changed since the first time the website author saw it in April - here.

  9. The second and last of the existing DMCs at Leominster has no website.  The best news on offer is yesterday's news.  "The official launch will take place on the 3rd May 2016 .." here.  The author of this page has informed Worcester University that outdated webpages destroy momentum.  

  11. You can't sell the goods if you don't put them in the market place.  

  13. Thanks to the two staff pictured in 9, Leominster participants receive a monthly programme but only they can see what's going on.


  16. This website author is working flat out to promote DMCs but this sort of scenario makes it an uphill struggle.


2  It is important to focus on the nature of DMCs:


  1. Ross Dementia Meeting Centre - Home page here  - a completely different focus

  3. Leominster Dementia Meeting Centre here  

  5. Dementia Service to Open in Herefordshire  1  here   2 here 

  7. Leominster Dementia Meeting Centre Home page here


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 3  here  4  here  5  here  6  here  7  here   8  here   9   here 10  here   11  here


12  here  youtube  Nov meeting  Tea dance   £102,7k       Numbers = editing in progress



2.2  The only other established DMC is at Droitwich here.  more  request


2.3  Lutterworth is in pipeline 3 9 2016  here.


 2.4  Brecon  2016
  1. Workshop here  here  here  here  here   

  3. Public Meeting to explore potential for a Brecon Dementia Meeting Centre here 

  5. Dementia Meeting Centre Initiative here 

  7. . . a public meeting at Theatr Brycheiniog to explore the potential for a dementia meeting centre in Brecon here  

  9. another at 2/2 here  

  11. On Thursday 19th May there is a Public Meeting to explore the potential for a Dementia Meeting Centre in Brecon here

  13. Dementia Meeting Centre for Brecon?  here    

  15. Russell Baldwin & Bright Supports Dementia Awareness Week.   See Thursday 19 May here.
  17. Health Focus Group – a Dementia café has been launched in Cusop Hall. Trish Richardson working to get Hay as a Dementia supportive community. It was agreed that any training in dealing with people with dementia would be beneficial.    Source -  Minutes of the meeting of Hay Town Council held in the Council Chamber at 7.00 pm on 7th October 2013.   

  19. This is a demonstration of how long things take from the first spark of interest to being  nowhere near launching a DMC.   In August 2016,  "The first action for the (Initiation) group to be taken will be to carry out a feasibility/assessment of need within the community . . .".  source   2.4.1 above asked the question - "(A) Dementia Meeting Centre for Brecon? " in mid June.

  21. Brecon Dementia Meeting Centre Initiative Group Meeting here.

  23. 2015 - under The Initiative (planning) and Advisory (operational) Group in Leominster  -  "
  24. Brecon and Hay Dementia Supportive 
  25. County"  
    26. 13/17  here.
     

2.5  Hay on Wye
  1. Minutes of the meeting of Hay Town Council held in the Council Chamber at 7.00 pm on 7th October 2013 -Health Focus Group – a Dementia café has been launched in Cusop Hall. Trish Richardson working to get Hay as a Dementia supportive community. It was agreed that any training in dealing with people with dementia would be beneficial.  here  660 k

  3. Haygarth surgery provided information that approx 40 people in and around the Hay area have some form of dementia here.

  5. Repeated and with some DMC hallmarks here.

  7. Possibility of involving   Sharing Stories, Hay-on-Wye  here.

2.6   The list may expand as others reveal themselves.



3     Background info
  1. The total grant for the project is for €1,119,819 with the UK-based research being funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and the University of Worcester receiving €375,000 for its work over the next three years. (from  21 August 2013)  source

  3. The work, however, continues. Results will be published in February next year.  A major charity has provided most of the UK operational funding of the two existing DMCs so far.  The future of existing and a few in-pipeline DMCs can  depend on those results. 

  5. Meeting Centres are an innovative way of supporting people with mild to moderate dementia more


4   Dementia resources  here



 

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