People living with dementia and their family and friends were invited to a free coffee morning from 10.00am to 12.30pm on Friday, April 24th at the Droitwich Spa Community Hall in Heritage Way. The coffee morning was hosted by the University of Worcester’s Association for Dementia Studies and the Alzheimer’s Society to give people more […]

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 […]

Prof. Rose-Marie Dröes presented the MeetingDem project at the Alzheimer Europe Conference in Glasgow (20-22 October 2014). She showed the design of the study and first results of the set up of initiative groups in the three participating countries UK, Poland and Italy, as well as the foreseen barriers and facilitators of implementation of the […]

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 26 August 2014. ‘Meeting Centers’ is the very first intervention to be recognised by the Recognition Committee for long-term care interventions. In July the subcommittee ederly care found that this intervention meets the criteria for efficiacy. The intervention supports people with dementia and their carers, by allowing them to live independently for a longer time and by reducing the pressure […]

MeetingDem was mentioned in the Worchester News and makes front page news in the Droitwich Standard paper!