{"id":881,"date":"2019-12-23T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/?p=881"},"modified":"2019-12-24T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T21:28:23","slug":"kind-community-even-if-memory-fades","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/2019\/12\/23\/kind-community-even-if-memory-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Community &#8211; Even If Memory Fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-851 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2019\/11\/dementia-ribbon.jpg?version=8a78fb0dd18e6ca7a27463f42503701e\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2019\/11\/dementia-ribbon.jpg 216w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2019\/11\/dementia-ribbon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/>Sudbury&#8217;s Senior Center provides a friendly, welcoming environment for citizens who are living with memory loss and their families and caregivers offering a monthly support group meeting, Comfort Food Caring Cafe, and Making Memories Cafe both monthly.&nbsp; Day to day the staff and volunteers extend sensitive and helpful assistance.&nbsp; Now, the Senior Center has begun the process of becoming a Dementia Friendly community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dementia Friendly Sudbury Action Team has begun offering Dementia Information Sessions to town staff and community members, as well as outreach on Dementia Friendly efforts to the business community.&nbsp; The Team hopes to apply for Dementia Friendly community designation from Dementia Friendly America (DFA) in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>DFA is a national network promoting ways communities across the U.S. can be equipped to support people living with dementia and their caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>A dementia friendly community is one that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is informed, safe and respectful of individuals with the disease, their families and caregivers<\/li>\n<li>provides supportive options that provide quality of life<\/li>\n<li>fosters the ability of people living with dementia to remain in community and engage and thrive in day to day living<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In our Commonwealth 160 communities are working to become more dementia friendly.&nbsp; Town leaders, business members, faith communities, and ordinary residents can play a role in making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>For more info on how you can do some of the simple things to make Sudbury truly comfortable and welcoming for our citizens with dementia, many of whom have given a lot to our community, please reach to Ana Cristina Oliveira at Sudbury Senior Center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>978 443-3055<\/li>\n<li>oliveiraa@sudbury.ma.us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living with memory loss need not lead to isolation <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/2019\/12\/23\/kind-community-even-if-memory-fades\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Kind Community &#8211; Even If Memory Fades\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}