Once churches have embarked on becoming dementia-friendly, the challenge is to move from the perspective that dementia-friendly church is something we did a few years back to the affirmation that it is something in the bloodstream, at the heart of the on-going transformative work of the church in the local community.
This builds on a network of active participants. The first four elements are resources offered to churches by the Diocese; the fifth and sixth elements are outcomes or actions from dementia-friendly churches.