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Dementia Reference Group - Have Your Say

Marcelline and Rajinder - presenting the Greenwich Dementia Reference group poster presentation 'An active part not being apart in Greenwich' at the UK Dementia Congress in Doncaster 2019

Rajinder and Martin - running a stall and event to mark National Dementia Action week in partnership with the National Maritime Museum in 2019.

Martin and Marcelline - running a stall at a local community centre raising Dementia awareness during International Alzheimer's month 2019

A walk through dementia at our Dementia event to mark National Dementia Action week 2018

Karen - running a Dementia awareness stall to mark International Alzheimer's month at ASDA Charlton in 2019

Dave and Jake - running activities in our activity tent at the 'Forever Young' Festival with the Greenwich Carers Centre in 2018

Our activity tent at the 'Forever Young' festival in 2018

Tony - carrying out an environment audit looking at accessibility to and from the bus stop to ASDA's entrance.

Rajinder - carrying out an environment audit at Gurdwara Woolwich in Calderwood St.

Marcelline - carrying out an environment audit at the Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill.

Get involved in making Greenwich a dementia inclusive borough to live, learn, work and visit.

Greenwich Dementia Reference group is an independent group of people with dementia and family carers living or caring in Greenwich, who want to make the Royal Borough of Greenwich a dementia inclusive place to live.

Have your say about dementia services in the Borough, share your experiences and suggestions or get involved in guiding businesses and services to be more dementia inclusive.

Our next Dementia Reference Group meeting is on:

Date: Friday 1st March 2024

Time: 11am – 12pm

Venue: please contact Angelika by email: angelika.welzel-connolly@royalgreenwich.gov.uk for more info.

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Dementia Action Week 2023 event with Greenwich Deputy Mayor Dominic Mbang  - we celebrated new and existing dementia-inclusive communities. 

 

This is your chance to voice your wishes and needs about what is important to you.

Have your say about dementia services in the Borough, share your experiences and suggestions or get involved in carrying out business audits. Guide businesses and services to be more dementia inclusive. 

To join the Dementia Reference Group you either need to be a person with dementia and/or a family carer/relative of someone with dementia

For more info and how to join contact: Angelika Welzel-Connolly

Email: Angelika Welzel-Connolly 

Contact Number: 020 8921 8533

Caring for someone living with Dementia - a personal experience from Marcelline Russell Chair of Dementia Reference Group

We would like to pay tribute to Dave Sharman, one of the Dementia Reference group founding members, who sadly passed away on 28th April 2020.

A few words by Marcelline Russell, Chair of the Dementia Reference group:

By the time I met Dave via the Dementia Reference Group verbal communication was something he was beginning to struggle with but his warm, friendly smile and his willingness to be a part of something attempting to make Greenwich a more dementia inclusive, thereby a better place to live, made Dave a lovely person to have known.

I know that this willingness to give his time to causes aiming to improve the community was something that featured throughout Dave’s life and all of the members of the Dementia Reference Group who knew Dave feel very privileged to have done so.

He will be missed.

Marcelline

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Dave Sharman