- Date: Thursday 6th November 2025
- Place: Gresleydale Surgery, Glamorgan Way, Church Gresley, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 9JT
For anyone with early-stage Dementia and anyone who cares for or helps someone with Dementia.
A friendly meeting for friends, family and carers
Summary
Following the success of the Dementia Coffee Morning in 2023, the practice and its PPG members wanted to host another coffee morning.
The purpose of the event was to engage with patients and their careers with a view to
identifying supportive networks and provide appropriate and relevant information.
Patients and their carers, affected by dementia, were all individually contacted. There was more attendee‘s than the previous coffee morning. The attendees this year were delighted to be there, and one said that they were very grateful for the invite. The attendance list totalled 11 patients and there were some new faces present.
The intent is always to provide appropriate information to attendees.
Guest speakers managed to talk to all who attended the coffee morning giving valuable advice to support health and wellbeing. The police advised using the Herbert protocol to help find loved ones if they go missing (available online)
The event lasted 1½ hours and as said above, the feeling overall was one of positivity.
Patients and carers were obviously quite comfortable to be there, and practice staff also benefitted from the opportunity of mixing with the patient community.
It has been suggested that we hold a community Dementia coffee morning next year,
inviting guest speakers and offering it out to the PCN local surgeries.
(watch this space for more info)
Guest speakers were
- Marie Hall – Gresleydale Healthcare Centre Care Coordinator
- Lyndsay Titley /Lesley Wison- Social Prescribing Link Worker
- Laura Bryan – Derbyshire Carers
- Claire Milburn – Practice Care Coordinator
- Kay/Ian – Police
Gresleydale Patient Benefits
- The surgery is a Dementia Friendly Practice.
- Staff have been given training to become Dementia Friends.
- Blue chairs for the waiting room for patient use.
Leaflets available (on request)