Alzheimers Series (Part 5): Envisioning a Dementia Friendly Community

Date:
Wednesday, 11/06/2019
Time: 7:00 pm

Category:

• Adults

It is embarrassing when people get impatient with you at the store and frustrating when they give you instructions you can’t remember long enough to follow. For people with dementia, it is a daily challenge to make their way in the community, and most people living with dementia live with their families or home alone, not sequestered away in a closed facility. So they are a part of, not apart from, our community.

That is why cities nationwide, from the size of Dexter to the size of Detroit, are taking simple, practical, low-cost steps to embrace the “Dementia-Friendly Community” concept.

In this “Envisioning a Dementia Friendly Community” presentation, you’ll take a PowerPoint tour that shows what a dementia-friendly community looks like. Learn about grocery stores, banks, recreation facilities, libraries, churches and other facilities in towns all around the country that have worked to be more respectful of friends and neighbors living with dementia, and helpful to them as they make their way in the community.  You will hear about how “Purple Angel” signs help first responders save lives in Florida and how diners reserve Purple Tables in Massachusetts. Hear about “Dementia-Aware” ninth graders in Alabama and dementia friendly libraries in Indiana. Hear about the business, and the social benefits, that dementia friendly communities in Colorado, Minnesota and Great Britain have realized, and the progress of dementia friendly efforts here in Michigan.

This program is the last in a 5 part series on Alzheimers & Dementia presented by Jim Mangi, PhD, in conjunction with the Washtenaw County Alzheimers Association.

This program is approximately 1 hour with Q & A time at the end. Registration suggested, but not mandatory.  To register call the library at 734-426-4477.  All are welcome to attend.