2. ① Dementia-friendly event ② Dementia-friendly church ③ Dementia-friendly communities

3. Head & Heart Starting point: where are we? Head Heart Facts Feelings

4. Head & Heart

5. Tea for people living with dementia and their carers

6. SUPERMARKET CHURCH STATION Shifnal, Shropshire

7. What can we offer? Local building Warm, inclusive welcome Volunteers Songs & prayers Deep resources for the heart Not afraid to name “dementia” Good tea & china teacups! “Dementia”

9. Strengths & Opportunities? Weaknesses & Challenges?

10. Weaknesses & Challenges Spreading the word Coming consistently Transport - DBS Communication

11. Belonging Deeper, wider friendship Peace Making our church more accessible to our community Empathy The tea – sharing a meal Truthfulness More involved in church Sharing issues Companionship Haven Laughter Forget-me-not Third Thursday @ 3pm Strength & Opportunities

12. Dementia-friendly church

13. Dementia-friendly church What does it look like?

14. Dementia-Friendly Church Lichfield Diocese Audit Questions Pastoral Care Buildings Services Community Networks

15. Resources e.g. Memory Boxes or activity quilts or sensory bands Welcomers – Dementia Friends Special events or services focusing on dementia Dementia awareness - e.g. Dementia Friends Sunday service – and talk about dementia Ten practical ways to become more dementia-friendly churches Named dementia (or disability) co-ordinator – aware of local charities and resources Further training to understand more about dementia Buildings review e.g. pictorial signage to toilets Services review e.g. visual prompts, familiar hymns and prayers Information sharing e.g. displays, notices, notice sheets Pastoral support – for carers too – including transport

16. Dementia-friendly church: what does it look like? Already doing? Next steps? Dreams?

18. Mapping Community Links

19. Dementia-friendly communities: what do they look like? “Building Dementia- Friendly Communities: A Priority for Everyone” Report published by the Alzheimer’s Society in August 2013

20. Dementia-friendly churches at the heart of dementia-friendly communities Run a group or event e.g Forget-me-not tea or dementia-friendly film screening Dementia Friends sessions and Dementia Friends champions? Shops – “Guide to customer-facing staff” Support local groups Library books on dementia – use and publicise them Memory boxes and activity quilts and sensory bands – make and share Local Dementia Action Alliance – join it! Use the church to host dementia- related events

21. www.dementiafriends.org.uk www.alzheimers.org.uk www.dementiaaction.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk/birmingham Next steps?

23. Head & Heart Where are we now? Head Heart Facts Feelings

24. Process Connection Being with Tick lists Changes Results Head Heart Facts Feelings

25. Combining head & heart?! Leunig

26. We pray for the fragile ecology of the heart and mind. The sense of meaning. So finely assembled and balanced and so easily overturned.

27. The careful, ongoing construction of love. As painful and exhausting as the struggle for truth and as easily abandoned. Hard fought and won are the shifting sands of this sacred ground, this ecology.

28. Easy to desecrate and difficult to defend, this vulnerable joy, this exposed faith, this precious order. This sanity. We shall be careful. With others and with ourselves. Amen.