Is your organization ready to step up and begin a community-wide conversation about how to better support local citizens living with dementia and their family and friend care partners?
The Dementia Friendly America Initiative is catalyzing a movement to more effectively support and serve those across America who are living with dementia and their family and friend care partners. LeadingAge is among the 35 national organization leaders of the initiative that have developed tools and resources to help communities to convene, participate in and support dementia friendly community efforts at a local level.
The Dementia-Friendly Toolkit guides communities through a research-informed process that fosters adoption of dementia-friendly practices in all parts of community. The toolkit is designed to be flexible and adapt to fit a community’s needs and complement other project management processes. The four phases are: Convene, Engage, Analyze, and Act. Successful implementation of the community toolkit requires strong leadership, dedicated team members and well-developed work plans. The time commitment for completing the four phases varies and has ranged anywhere from six to eighteen months.
