Category: Blog
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British Reflexology Association and a TV producer at DCUK
One of members today Chrystalla celebrated her 89th birthday and this was celebrated in the usual DCUK fashion. Chrystalla celebrated her 89th birthday at Dementia Club UK We also had 2 visitors. I introduced our first visitor Serena Dhaliwal who is a Development Assistant Producer of Boundless. From the makers of Channel 4’s Grand Designs…
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NCS return to Hendon Town Hall
NCS students returned today at Hendon Town Hall for the second day. Members were very pleased to see them again. We also had some new members. Members from Dementia Club UK and students from NCS on the stairs of Hendon Town Hall The students started with some singing from Lisa’s song sheets and Stefan the…
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NCS Return and a few Birthdays
We had a very busy session today with a visit from 12 students from National Citizen Service ‘NCS’ The students were led by their senior mentor Stefan Filby and Nora Perone. We also had some birthdays to celebrate. It was Pantelis birthday celebrating 81 years. His wife brought a huge fresh cream cake and other…
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Rotary Celebrates the fight against Polio
Lisa took the session today with Eleanor. The session started with 2 challenges. The first challenge was all members to copy a picture of a house and a stick man in the middle. The challenge was to keep the pencil on the paper without lifting it when drawing the stick man. This was not easy…
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Rotary London UK District 1130 conference
Lisa was invited to speak at the Rotary London UK District 1130 conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-Upon-Avon on Saturday 21st October 2017. Lisa presenting at the Rotary London UK District 1130 conference Lisa spoke about dementia and Dementia Club UK to 400 Rotarians who attended from different London clubs. There were other…
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Safety from Scammers
Today we all had interesting conversations about ‘scams’. One of the carers has recently had a phone call pretending they were from the inland revenue informing the member they were being investigated for fraud and needed information from him. Luckily our member had good sense and put the phone down. This led to a conversation…
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ICC Concert in aid of Dementia Club UK
We want to thank Ionian Clarinet Choir who are giving a concert in aid of Dementia Club UK. The concert will be at St Andrews Church, Chase Side, Southgate, N14 5PP. There will be refreshments provided by the church in the interval. Ionian Clarinet Choir at St Andrews Church, Southgate.
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Flu jabs at Finchley Memorial
We had over 40 members today. Our Doctor Angela organised with the hospital pharmacy to give members the opportunity to have their flu jab. Quite a few members were very grateful and we thank Dr Angela for organising this. The members were pleased to welcome Kevin (one of our carers) who once a month does…
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Elstree and Borehamwood on 10th October
We welcomed 4 new members today. 2 had come under their own steam. Time for refreshments and a quiz. After the sandwiches and cakes Sara started the exercises. It was great to see so many join in. Dr Rebecca is getting to know the members and had time to circulate and chat to people. We…
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Two Birthdays at Stephens House and Gardens
Today we had 2 visitors. We had Ms Ellen Bernstein a speech and language therapist who specialises with stroke victims but has also had some experience with dementia sufferers. She gave various examples of her work which everyone found interesting. We also had a visitor from Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Ms Simone Chinman-Russell, Executive Director…