THE South West Heritage Trust has signed up as an organisation to the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme which is its biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia.
The organisation is holding reminiscence sessions for two care homes in the Taunton area as part of Dementia Awareness Week (May 14-20).
There are nearly two million Dementia Friends already signed up across England and Wales, who are going out into their communities with a greater understanding of dementia and some of the ways they can help people living with the condition.
Dementia Friends are helping to create communities in which people living with dementia feel more understood and included.
The trust’s Heritage Reminiscence sessions are available to groups in Somerset and Devon and cover a variety of themes such as ‘wildlife,’ ‘house and home’, and ‘food and farming’.
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