The Alzheimer's and Memory Café: How to Start and Succeed with Your Own Café

by PhD Jytte Fogh Lokvig

Overview

The ultimate guide to starting and succeeding with an Alzheimer's or memory café, the most innovative project to support people living with dementia and their caregivers. A café meets once or twice a month for a break from the pressure of living with or caring for someone with dementia. It offers everyone a time and place for everyone to leave the disorder and share something positive. This book describes numerous different cafés, whose leaders share itheir experiences, ideas and suggestions.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971039094
Publisher:	Endless Circle Press
Publication date:	06/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	15 MB
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Table of Contents

What is an Alzheimer's Café? What it's not History of the Alzheimer's Café A Cafe in Every Community Filling a Need Fighting the Stigma Living with Dementia Memory Cafes for All Purpose Starting Your Own Café Choosing Your Venue Venue Search in Santa Fe Choosing Day and Time Association or Not Formats and Programs Leadership Naming Our Cafés Getting the Word Out What Happens at the Café? Comments from Café Leaders Opening Day in Santa Fe No Two Cafés Alike Pasadena, CA Seattle, WA Marlborough, MA Roswell, GA Topsfield, MA Warner Robins, GA Knoxville, TN Dover, NH Fort Walton Beach and Destin, FL Fox Valley, WI Brooklyn, NY Santa Fe, NM Dementia Friendly Communities Momentia, WA Art Museums and Galleries Opening Doors Museum of Modern Art Harlem, NY Taos, NM Albuquerque, NM Music Sing-alongs Starter Songbook Dancing - Movement Word Games Drama - Theater Fun and Laughter Creativity Collages Group Painting Project Painted Tiles Tiles How-to Holidays and Celebrations Poetry and Story Writing Alzheimer's and Related Dementia Warning Signs Words Matter Communication Surveys Bioclinica, Our Sponsor Why are clinical trials important What is a clinical trial?
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Editorial Reviews

This enjoyable book gives a comprehensive review of the Alzheimer's Cafe concept as a model to create meaningful engagement for people living with dementia and their care partners. Drawing on a variety of cafe experiences across the US and beyond, Jytte Lokvig provides a multitude of ideas for creating such a space in your community. This is not simply a "cookie-cutter" book, but more importantly serves as a book of possibilities that are as rich and varied as the people and places they serve.
Dr. Al Power, Author of Dementia beyond Diisease

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