Welcome Dementia Friendly Oak Park!
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Dementia Friendly America Webinar: Giving Voice Initiative: Creating Choral Communities (Including COVID-19 adaptations)
Dear DFA stakeholders, Dementia Friendly America is holding a webinar on April 30 on choral communities with a special focus on the Giving Voice initiative, which will describe their initiative and how it can be a component of a dementia friendly community initiative. Special attention will be paid to how choral communities are adapting
Dementia Friendly Webinar, April 30
Dear DFA stakeholders, Dementia Friendly America is holding a webinar on April 30 on choral communities with a special focus on the Giving Voice initiative, which will describe how their initiative and how it can be a component of a dementia friendly community initiative. Special attention will be paid to how choral communities are adapting
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Welcome Dementia-Friendly Westmont!
The ICRN is proud to welcome the Village of Westmont as the latest Illinois community to be recognized as a national Dementia-Friendly community by Dementia Friendly America. “I want to thank everyone who has been part of this important initiative,” said Ron Gunter, Mayor of Westmont. “Susan Frick with Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Mary
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City of Westmont Holds Dementia Friends Training for First Responders
As part of their efforts to become a nationally recognized Dementia Friendly community, the City of Westmont, along with RADC social worker Susan Frick, Initiated a Dementia Friends training for 35 first responders from the town Westmont.
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Dementia Awareness Proclamation Approved for the Village of Westmont
City of Westmont Press Release: At the November 7, 2019 Village of Westmont Board Meeting, the Village approved a proclamation declaring that November 7 be Dementia Friendly Awareness Day in Westmont. November is also National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Several staff and residents from Aspired Living of Westmont were in attendance to participate. “The Village of
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Glencoe Community Featured in the Chicago Tribune
“Glencoe Library Offers Kits to Entertain, Stimulate Dementia Patients” Hello all! Check out this article that was in the Chicago Tribune Excerpt: “The Glencoe Public Library, in partnership with Family Service of Glencoe, now offers for checkout Adult Memory Kits, which are designed to engage people with dementia in stimulating and creative activities and to
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