Dementia Awareness Week events
press release - June 16 2011
Independent Wiltshire charity Alzheimer’s Support is planning a range of activities to mark Dementia Awareness Week on July 3 – 9
On Monday July 4, Brigid Griffiths will talk about her experiences of living with dementia at the Alzheimer Café in East Grafton.
Brigid, a former teacher, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease over a year ago and believes it is important to talk openly about the condition which affects more than 6,000 people in Wiltshire. The café is open from 2pm to 3.30pm at Coronation Hall in East Grafton. Please call 01380 739055 if you would like to come along.
People in Trowbridge will get a chance to look around the town’s new dementia centre when Alzheimer’s Support opens the doors of its new offices at Park House on Tuesday July 5.
The building will be officially opened at 10.45am by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire John Bush, before an open-air Singing for the Brain® session. The centre will be open until 2pm for people to meet staff, find out more about dementia and enjoy homemade refreshments and live music.
On Thursday July 7, the Sidmouth Club in Devizes will be hosting an open garden event with live music and refreshments from 11am to 1pm. Everyone is invited to drop in to meet club staff and members, find out more about dementia and about the work of the club.
Alzheimer’s Support carers are also taking part in an event at the Royal United Hospital in Bath to help raise staff awareness of the condition. See It My Way: Living with Dementia, will give people with dementia and their carers the chance to put their points of view to groups of staff.
The charity depends on fundraising to keep going and a doorstep envelope collection is taking part all week in towns and villages in East and West Wiltshire. The week will be rounded off with another fundraising push, when a team of 12 supporters will take part in the British 10k run in London on July 10.
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