Memory Cafe
Our memory café provides a weekly support group for care partners simultaneously as their partners enjoy a cognitive enrichment program down the hall. Some memory cafés bring care partners together to do a specific project (art, craft, etc.) or enjoy a specific experience, (a performance, movement class, or musical concert, etc.) together. At the SE Valley Sun Lakes café, we also offer quarterly events for our care partners to socialize together: luncheons, picnics, holiday parties, and an annual gala where everyone gets dressed up and dances their hearts out with a food, champagne, comradery and music – all in the mission of JOY together with our new friends.
Our gala is also a fundraiser.Memory Café is designed to be a warm and inviting place for anyone experiencing cognitive decline along with their circle of family and friends. Whether that cognitive decline is from a stroke, Parkinson’s disease, age, health-related complications or dementia, a welcoming door at Memory Cafe is always wide open for all and is always a free event.
Café serves those living with cognitive change both with appropriate education and creative stimulation, as well as providing critical social, psychological and emotional support. Families are often surprised by the fact that their loved ones make new friends. That is exactly one of the most joyful and fulfilling benefits of this kind of program.
Memory café serves our care partners in so many different ways. Because you are meeting with people of similar circumstances, your journeys will reflect similar situations. Café is filled with many loving care partners and each week as everyone’s stories and experiences are shared and unfold, members can choose to dive more deeply into a challenge they’re facing, or just listen and process. Support group members share through their experiences of uncertainty, questions, answers, grief, fear, ideas, tears, love, learning, laughter, resignation and inspiration. Our support group members also make new friends and most importantly, support each other.
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