We had an arts and crafts session today to start with as Dr Angela brought in some blank male and female figurines for members to colour. The idea would be for Angela to use these figurines to decorate a Christmas tree for the Christmas tree festival at Christ Church Southgate.
Members were therefore very busy with their colouring and produced some really lovely colourful figurines. Nick, one of the Trustees and Lisa’s son also attended today. Nick is the IT expert and Lisa announced to members that Nick would be taking these figurines away to create a poster for the church and will also create a banner and also to create a new Christmas card for Dementia Club UK.
The session then followed with Lisa doing exercises with the members which they all enjoyed. Some singing then followed and then the Tovertafel. It was an enjoyable session. My thanks to our volunteers – Melvyn, Eleanor, Nick and Dr Angela.
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This is the last session unfortunately at Allum Manor. Despite all the advertising it has not attracted many members to this beautiful venue. Lisa has therefore decided to start another new dementia club at a different venue in Borehamwood in the New Year.
Although only 2 members attended today, Lisa still made it enjoyable and challenging. Lisa brought some artificial fruit and organised it in a bowl. The members then tried to draw the fruit bowl. Mel was very proud of his picture. This was then followed by a quiz and other games.
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Dementia Club UK joined together with 1st year Pharmacists from Boots Brent Cross today to do a Dementia Awareness Day.
We displayed various literature about dementia, the Pharmacists from Boots had designed a pull up banner depicting the Alzheimers bookshelf. At the bottom of the bookshelf are all the memories of your younger days and as you move up the bookshelf you have the recent occurrences. If the bookshelf wobbles then the recent memories will start falling off so new memories are hard to retain. The memories at the bottom of the bookshelf are not affected but in time these will also be affected as the bookshelf gets weaker.
When approached by the public today the Alzheimers bookshelf was explained and each person was given a yellow sticker to write one of their memories. Dementia Club UK Christmas cards in packs of 10 were also given as a freebie to raise awareness.
It was a very successful day. I would like to thank Anisha from Boots Brent Cross for organising the event and inviting Dementia Club UK. I also like to thank other Staff from other Boots stores from around North London who joined us - Ting, Heather, Narmeen, Anmol, Vishnu and Bhumika. It was also a pleasure to meet the Boots Brent Cross General Manager Kunjal Sutaria and also the Boots NW Regional Manager Andrew Gordon. I would also like to thank Brent Cross for hosting this event and Karl from the from the Brent Cross Information desk who offered to help with some bucket collecting.
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Today's session was taken by Annette:
"Today’s session went well and Moshe was very good, neither him nor the members were eager to end the session at 4p.m!
There were 41 members today and we were grateful to have Volunteer, Melissa and her husband Bob on hand to help.
The afternoon was spent creating Christmas cards for our loved ones. As the year comes close to an end, the session was spent making customised cards for members to send out to some of these people to show them how much appreciated they are.
Thereafter, we had a quiz on cities and things. Moshe took over and at the end of the session, I reminded members to join us at Brent Cross on Friday and also at the next two sessions. We definitely had a wonderful time together as usual."
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It was a smaller group today but it was still a very enjoyable and very busy session. Lisa started with a quiz and asked members to make some words from random letters in a wheel picture. The challenge was to first find the 9 letter word and 8 letter word. There was a lot of thinking and they all did very well.
Richard then arrived to do chair Yoga. Members always look forward to this as Richard makes it a really fun way of exercising.
The session then followed with Helen Tierney who brings her accordion, harp and piano keyboard. She started playing 'She'll be Coming Round the Mountain' and then leading on with music from the war years to commemorate Remembrance Day which was yesterday. Members then heard further favourites which everyone enjoyed and sang along to and even danced.
Thank you to our Rotarians - Valerie who is also one of our Trustees, Kuljit and his wife, Ian and Michael. Thank you also to Mark my husband who is also one of the Trustees and of course thank you to Risom for looking after everyone with refreshments.
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