Cafe helps dementia sufferers
A MEMORY CAFE has opened at Camelford to provide a meeting place for people with dementia and memory problems and their carers.
The cafe will be held on the second and fourth Monday of each month between 2pm and 4pm at Anvil Court, the sheltered housing unit.
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A new memory cafe has opened at Camelford. Pictured with a cheque from Age Concern are, left to right: Pat Barnard (Age Concern); Margaret Ford (Age Concern); Margaret Lovell (Cornwall Care My Option) and Betty Hale (East Cornwall Voluntary Service).
Memory cafes offer all sorts of activities designed to stimulate feelings of belonging, as conditions such as Alzheimers can be very isolating.
Mrs Betty Hale of the East Cornwall Voluntary Service has been involved with other memory cafes in the area. She said: "I met a lady at the one in Wadebridge. She brings her husband to it, and told me that she comes in with a stranger and goes home with her husband.
"Activities such as slide shows, old photographs, singing familiar songs really do help."
When the cafe opened last week, a cheque from Age Concern for £250 was presented to the new cafe as a contribution to the running costs.
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