Special MeetingDem cake to celebrate the final Initiative Group meeting in the UK. In September, the first meeting centre opened in Droitwich Spa. The formal opening ceremony will take place November 20th.

Leominster Meeting Centre Information Meeting was held at Grange Court on Thursday 8th October 2015 and was attended by 52 people representing many different organisations and facets of the community. The meeting was opened by the Mayor of Leominster – Councillor Felicity Norman and there was a great deal of interest in how the Centre […]

Change Day is the day that healthcare professionals take action for better care. They share what they have done to inspire others. Together each of the small actions will make a big difference in improving care. Prof. Rose-Marie Dröes was interviewed about her ‘change’. ‘My change was when I set up the meeting centers in 1993.’ Read the whole  ‘Change Story’ of Rose-Marie […]

The first Meeting Center in Wrocław, Poland, is already opened! The Meeting Centre is running as a part of a new build Day Care Home “Na Ciepłej” (that means on the Warm Street :)) for elderly and mentally disabled people. The opening ceremony took place on 3rd October 2015. The building was opened by the […]

The soon to be opened Meeting Center in the UK was mentioned in the Worchester News and was again front page news in the Droitwich Advertisor!

The opening of the second Meeting Center in Italy, in Milan, in district 7, took place at the end of May 2015.   Photo of the opening day

Click here to read the MeetingDem Newsletter July 2015.

The first Meeting Center within this project was opened in Milan, district 4 on 5 May 2015.   On the photo, in front of the door of the Meeting Center in Milan District 4, from right to left: Dr. Elisabetta Farina, Neurologist, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus and partner of the MeetingDem project;  Leonora Chiavari, […]

Prof. Joanna Rymaszewska and prof. Joanna Szczepańska-Gieracha were interviewed for the Wroclaw Radio channel on 1 March 2015. They talked about the new possibilities to support people with dementia in Wroclaw, such as Meeting Center and Alzheimer’s Cafe.

The second yearly meeting of the Meetingdem partners took place on the 27th and 28th of March 2015. All the international partners from Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were welcomed by their colleagues from Poland in the lovely city of Wroclaw. After two days full of interesting presentations, discussions and tasting the excquisit Polish […]