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Developing our Dementia-Friendly Churches Network

An occupational therapist recently asked me a really good question that got me thinking

No service plan should be expected to survive contact with the congregation...

Residential care homes involve a community of residents and relatives, and staff – and Care home communities have been particularly impacted by Covid-19 restrictions.

There are care homes across the diocese and some of these have been particularly hard hit by the Coronavirus...

Challenge and change, conversations and connections

In summer 2018, I led a Dementia-Friendly Churches Training Day in Guernsey. It’s wonderful to hear from St Saviour’s Church there about the next steps they’ve taken

Enlightening session at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

'Eliza Grey' play – helping your church and community to become more dementia-friendly

"All it takes to see we're still us"

More talk, more tables please!

Making sense of an upside-down world

Brave and foolish or a wasted time?

An open letter to those with a sacred vocation

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself

Jeremy Stretton is Dementia coordinator for a church in north Shropshire

14-church landmark in Shropshire

The 14 churches of Ellesmere Deanery have signed up to becoming Dementia-friendly Churches

Interview with the vicar, Revd Maureen Read

Read the experiences of two Dementia-Friendly Church coordinators

Thinking about dementia can be overwhelming, but small steps add up.

Friendly staff in Shifnal

Admin Admiration at GP centres

Among other things, news of a Dementia-friendly 'Songs of Praise' this coming Sunday

Good practice for visiting nursing and residential homes

A post inspired by Josie Edwards, co-ordinator for St Matthew's Church, Donnington Wood with a local residential home for adults with complex needs.

Dementia Awareness Week ran from 17-23 May 2015. Various things went on in and around Shifnal.

At our Forget-me-not tea this month, we looked at the cutout pictures by the world-famous artist Matisse.

It’s important to know that, as churches, we don’t have to go it alone! David Latcham is an Information Worker at the Alzheimer’s Society in Shropshire.

“Words are very powerful – they can build you up or put you down. When you are speaking about dementia remember this.”