Dementia Friendly Massachusetts is a grassroots movement to make communities safe, inclusive and respectful for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, or a related dementia.

Idea Exchanges

The Idea Exchanges are gatherings of people from COA’s, municipalities, regional planners, direct service providers, academics and individuals who come together to share ideas and learn about successful dementia friendly programming.

More Information

See Map of DF Communities

View an interactive map of Dementia Friendly communities.

Click Here

Webinars

Join us for our webinar series to learn more about specific topics as they relate to dementia. Dementia and Guns, Dementia Friendly Libraries, Come to a DF fair and other topics will be explored. Links to archived Webinars will be posted here.

Click Here

Featured Resources

What is Dementia?

Understand the many forms of the disease

Dementia Friendly Communities

Steps to becoming a more Dementia Friendly Community

Sample DFM Materials

Find mock-up materials that you can easily download and use in your community

Memory Café’s

Create a wonderfully welcoming place for individuals with Dementia

The DFM Pledge

Sign the DFM Pledge to become more dementia friendly

Resources by Sector

Links to Dementia Friendly resources by Sector

Better Together

Better Together: Dementia Friendly and Age Friendly Communities

Partners

Links to DFM Partners

Funding

Funding Opportunities and Clever Ideas to fund your DF Activities

News

Congregations attempt to meet the religious needs of people with dementia

by Lynn Wolf | Sep 16, 2019

RICHLANDTOWN, Pa. — The seven women, most in wheelchairs, sat in a semicircle facing stained-glass windows and an altar topped with a cross and a statuette of Jesus holding a lamb. Underneath the draped table was an ark-shaped container brimming with small stuffed...

New Resource

by Lynn Wolf | Aug 14, 2019

The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center developed a new resource to assist in your work with individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and dementia. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Dementia: Practical...

A Different Way to Celebrate the 4th

by Lynn Wolf | Jul 5, 2019

Please see the article from the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-news/with-their-minds-fading-patriotic-songs-spark-memories-of-fourths-long-ago/2019/07/03/f6175924-9c47-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html

Events Calendar

11

Mar

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

UCLA Memory Program Master Training – Pittsfield

Home