This Month, Triple Your Impact
This Month, Triple Your Impact
Make 3x the difference during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month with our 3x Bonus Match Challenge — but only until midnight June 16. Your gift can go three times as far to help provide care and support and advance research.
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Individuals may seek opportunities that allow them to make meaningful contributions and remain involved and active in daily life, friendships and decisions for as long as possible. Through a variety of community based social, cultural, intellectual, health and wellness and gardening events, individuals living with early stage dementia are able to connect with people who understand what they are going through and may provide support, encouragement, inspiration necessary to move beyond their diagnosis and have fun.
There is much you can do in the early stage to cope with the changes ahead.
Person with Dementia Support Groups
Person With Dementia Support Groups are free of charge and are geared towards individuals who have recently been diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or dementia and are in the early stage of the disease progression. This group is not meant for caregivers – learn about caregiver support groups here. All Person With MCI Dementia Support Groups are facilitated by trained Alzheimer’s Association Support Group Facilitators and meet for 6 months at a time.
Individuals and their care partners are required to connect with the Alzheimer's Association prior to joining the group.
CONTACT: If you are interested, please call the Alzheimer’s Association 24/7 Helpline at 1.800.272.3900.
COST: Free
WHERE: Typically hosted in for 1 hour a month, for 6 months at a time. View schedule.
Growing Connections
Join us for good, green fun!
Growing Connections is a free gardening program designed exclusively for people with early-stage dementia and for their care partners. Choose the day that works best for you for the entire spring program. The classes focus on learning and having fun in the moment. We provide a light snack and plenty of social time for you to connect with your classmates. No garden, gardening experience, or green thumb required!
This series of classes is offered by the University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners of Hennepin County, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: Space is limited. If you are interested, please call Jenna at 952.857.0558.
Choose the day that works best for you for the entire fall program. Both sessions will take place at the Hopkins Activity Center in Hopkins, MN.
- Monday mornings, September 8 - October 13, 10 a.m. - noon
- Tuesday mornings, September 9 - October 14, 10 a.m. - noon
Community Classes
Educational classes about Alzheimer's and Dementia are available to you and your friends and family at no cost.
I Have Dementia
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