Flintham Museum and Cotgrave Memory Cafe

Our first session of working with people with dementia and their carers at a Memory cafe in Cotgrave was successful and very enjoyable. We'd adapted a number of activities (see below) relating to the 1960s. For example, we encouraged people to match daisy badges with a celebrity's name to photographs, they handled and talked about a variety of themed objects (1960s fashion, 1960s food, a day out in the 1960s) and had a go at filling in quiz sheets about 1960s books and films.

Music from the decade was played and iconic images were shown throughout the session in the background. The carers were invited to write about their relative's reactions on the day and a month later at the next Memory Cafe. The comments were very encouraging and we hope we're invited to go and facilitate another session in the future.