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Epping Forest District has maintained its status as ‘Working to become a Dementia Friendly Community’ for another year!
Dementia Friendly Communities
After recently completing the Dementia Friendly Communities annual assessment Epping Forest Dementia Action Alliance (EFDAA) was found to have maintained the standards over the past year.
The renewed accreditation is for the whole of Epping Forest District.
Partnership working co-ordinated by the council’s Community, Culture & Wellbeing team encompasses a whole range of activities, advice sessions and dementia awareness.
Dementia friendly activities
Wellbeing Wednesdays at Epping Forest District Museum provide activities to help residents engage, reduce isolation and promote a sense of wellbeing.
Musical Memories is an opportunity for adults to reconnect with nature using powerful memories through music.
The Community Café offers light refreshments, a chance to chat, meet new friends in a relaxed, warm and welcoming environment and is free to visit.
Men’s Shed, run by Voluntary Action Epping Forest (VAEF) is for men of all ages to meet, socialise, and engage with a range of practical activities and interests. It is free to participate and refreshments are available.
Epping Forest District Museum in Waltham Abbey – an accredited dementia friendly venue – hosted the Georgie Meadows Exhibition earlier this year. Her stitched drawings brought together 24 textile artworks exploring personal experiences of ageing and dementia and helped promote greater awareness of dementia.
Bi-monthly Dementia Friends Information Sessions – delivered in partnership with EFDAA – have supported local people with dementia and their carers/families throughout 2021/22 by creating more awareness and understanding within the community.
Thanks to officers
A list of the dementia friendly activities in the Epping Forest District is regularly updated and shared with all networks connected to EFDAA and there are many dementia friendly groups across the district that are delivered by partners.
I’m so pleased that we have been able to maintain Epping Forest District as a dementia friendly community. I was involved in the formation of the EFDAA in 2015 and I would like to thank the Community, Culture and Wellbeing’s officers and numerous volunteers for their time, effort, and energy in taking this Group forward.
said Aniket Patel, Cabinet Member for Communities.
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