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For more information and resources

This page provides several links to help you access further information about Meeting Centres.

First up, we have the main guidebook for how to set up a Meeting Centre, plus related resources:

• Guidelines for setting up and running a successful Meeting Centre
  • Appendices to the guide
  • Supporting evidence
• The Essential Features of a Meeting Centre
• A booklet for carers, by carers - We're all in this together!
• Coming soon - a booklet for members, by members

There are also useful information sheets and other sources of information:

• Information sheet on What is a Meeting Centre?
• Information sheet on Why open a Meeting Centre?
• Information sheet on What support is available to you?
• A related report on Asset Mapping which could help when trying to establish a new Meeting Centre
• Meeting Centre Blog - Keep up to date with
• Twitter - Follow #MeetingCentres 

You can also access several films about the background to Meeting Centres, their development, the underpinning ethos:

• - A short 3-minute video of Professor Rose-Marie Droes speaking about the  at the 31st International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), held in Budapest, Hungary in April 2016.

These films relate to individual Meeting Centres:

•   - Age UK national have published this video and write up on their visit to the DSMC: ‘Music and Dementia support’

•  Dementia Action Week 2018

You may also find this useful:

We will aim to add new links and resources in due course, but the will also contain resources that may be of interest.