The sun shone on Dementia Friendly Musselburgh at its D in the Park at St Andrew’s High Church on Saturday. It was a day for the community to come along and find out more about dementia and to talk about life in Musselburgh if you have or support someone living with dementia. What is great […]
Dementia Friendly Tranent hit the streets during Gala Week. The Dementia Bunny and friends were out and about raising awareness about dementia and a smile or two along the way. It was a great day and the Dementia Bunny is becoming a well known sight in Tranent. I wonder if we should ask David at the Fraser […]
Dementia Friendly Haddington met on Wednesday, many thanks to Andrena from Market Court for hosting us. Everyone was full of ideas, and it was great to have folk from local sheltered housing and care homes there as they know well what their residents like to do and will help us make sure that older people in […]
Dementia Friendly Dunbar held its first Community Event on Saturday, a great way to kick off East Lothian’s Dementia Awareness Week. The organising team have been working for months to make the day a great success and ensure that people across the local community could get it into their diaries. There was a great […]
Hello and welcome to our brand new web site dedicated to celebrating and supporting our Dementia Friendly Communities across East Lothian! Living with dementia can be frightening and lonely. Although everyone experiences dementia in a different way, people with dementia can face problems with: remembering things working things out learning new things coping with physical or sensory […]
