AaroHelm Meeting Centre (AMC) is a Private Volun-tary Organisation (PVO) registered by the Private Vol-untary Organizations Act (Chapter 17:05) of Zimbabwe, founded against the backdrop of the overt minimal to nil current services designed to meet the needs of those living with dementia in the country.
Inspired by the desire to immortalise the founder/director’s mother, Helminah Ndhlovu (16.05.1931 – 07.09.2017; Primary School teacher), and heavily underpinned by the principles of the Meeting Centres Support Programme, the centre is primed to provide a person-centred service to the less affluent communities of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.Helminah enjoyed first-class person-centred dementia care in the last 10 years of her life whilst living at home. Her two daugh-ters, both dementia special-ists working in the United Kingdom, remotely super-vised and guided Helminah’s live-in carer to ensure that a person-centred approach was maintained and upheld up to the day she died. Following her death, the family home was repurposed to provide an exem-plar of person-centred dementia day care.
Contact person: Clementinah Rooke, C.Rooke@hud.ac.uk