Dementia Meeting Centres
A Meeting Centre is a local resource, operating out of ordinary community buildings, that offers on-going warm and friendly expert support to people with mild to moderate dementia and their families. At the heart of the Meeting Centre is a social club where people meet to have fun, talk to others and get help that focuses on what they need. Meeting Centres are based on sound research evidence of what helps people to cope well in adjusting to living with the symptoms and changes that dementia brings.
If you would like to find out more about the UK Meeting Centre Support Programme and/or the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ¿â Meeting Centre Support programme please email: meetingcentres@worc.ac.uk
Dementia friendly places and communities
In Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ¿â we have dementia friendly towns, supermarkets and businesses. Look out for information in your local community. It may be that your local supermarket has a slow lane with extra help in place for people living with dementia. The Dementia Action Alliance lists the current organisations that are part of the dementia friendly community.
Accessible places
Travel Wallet scheme
The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ¿â Travel Wallet is a scheme to support people with various disabilities to make best use of public transport by helping overcome some of the communication barriers that they can face on a daily basis.
Safe places
The Safe Place scheme gives vulnerable people a short term ‘Safe Place’ to go if they are feeling threatened or upset when out and about in their local town.
NEW Lifeline scheme
NEW Lifeline scheme is a community alarm service which provides peace of mind 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to vulnerable people in Bromsgrove District and Redditch Borough.