Silver Spring Personal Care Home hosts Dementia Friends: Understanding Dementia

What Makes You a Dementia Friend? 
  You become a Dementia Friend by attending an interactive 60-minute Information Session to learn about living with dementia and the small things you can do to show support to members of your community. 

What Happens at the Information Session?
  The 60-minute session is a discussion led by a Dementia Friends Champion.
You will be able to: 

• Describe dementia
• Know the most common type of dementia
• Understand five key messages about dementia
• Learn ways to effectively communicate with a person living with dementia
• Choose a small dementia-friendly action

Dementia Friends is a global movement developed by the Alzheimer’s Society in the United Kingdom. Dementia Friends is underway in Pennsylvania.