Dementia Friends Massachusetts

02/27/2025

What should we name our new Dementia Friend? 🫶

02/10/2025

Welcome to our newest Massachusetts Champions! 💙

01/23/2025

Attend this free specialized Dementia Friends information session with an Indigenous perspective, led by Champion RevDr Sandy Range on Tuesday, February 4, from 2pm-3pm on Zoom! Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XzcCgGyQR9Sm3IHqlv5x8w

Dr. Range is a retired psychotherapist with 40+ years of experience. She is a Tsalagi Medicine Elder and Initiated Q’ero Shaman, Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner, Reiki Master, Meditation Teacher, and Therapeutic Life and Wellness Coach. She founded the Grandmothers' VIllage Project for housing elders of color.

12/17/2024

Grateful for more Dementia Friends with the folks at the LGBTQ Elders of Color. Thanks to Champion Lisa Krinsky for leading an information session with Flashback Sunday!

12/09/2024

Great job to Champions Christine Paszuk and Deb Dowd-Foley who led an information session for staff at the Elder Services of Worcester Area (ESWAorg)!

11/14/2024

Attend a Dementia Friends information session at the Framingham Public library Framingham Public Library on Tuesday, November 19th, at 7pm!

Dementia Friends is a global public awareness program that helps everyone in a community learn about dementia and the simple things we can all do to make a difference. Join us for a free information session to learn the 5 key messages about how dementia affects people.

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[Image Description: A flier for the Dementia Friends program at the Main Library on November 19th at 7pm.]

09/30/2024

Meet our newest Dementia Friends Champions!

Champions play a key role in raising awareness and understanding of dementia across Massachusetts. Thanks to their dedication, we now have 17,868 Dementia Friends in the state!

Help us reach 18k by becoming a Champion! Register for the next Champion Training on November 12, from 1 to 4pm--link in the comments!

09/26/2024

Great job!!

Last week, 22 students from the Health Technology Juniors became Dementia Friends Champions after completing the training. They are now equipped to deliver the curriculum to friends, families, and community groups. These juniors will also help in freshman exploratories to ensure that all students going through the Health Tech program become Dementia Friends. Dementia Friends is a global movement that aims to change the way people think, act, and talk about dementia. Dementia Friends Massachusetts

09/22/2024

Welcome to our new Dementia Friends from 2Life Communities in Brighton! Great job Debi for leading this info session 🎉

09/16/2024

What's one way to turn your understanding into action? Volunteer at a Memory Cafe!

08/29/2024

Join us at our upcoming virtual symposium:
Let's Talk about Dementia and Culture 2024 - Brain Health for all communities
Tuesday, October 29, 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT
Register at https://bit.ly/dementiasymposium2024

Hear from researchers, advocates living with dementia, public health leaders, and community-based dementia educators as we explore current evidence-based tips for brain health, how these link to the structural and social determinants of health, and what research and life experience tell us about continuing to live well with a dementia diagnosis.

Attendance is free. CEUs will be available for a fee. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, and captions in English and most other languages available.