First Alz café meeting of 2007
Released: 5 January 2007
The Wolverhampton branch of the Alzheimer Café UK will meet next week to offer support and information for people with dementia and their families.
The city’s Alz Café is a monthly meeting for people with dementia or memory loss, their families and friends, at the Hollybush pub in Penn, developed jointly by Wolverhampton City Council Social Services, Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust and the local branch of the Alzheimer’s Society.
The first meeting of 2007 will take place on Monday, January 8 and will feature guest speaker, Moni Grizzell, a mental health nurse who has worked with the Alzheimer’s Society for many years.
It will be the second meeting of the Wolverhampton Alz Café since the service was formally launched in November 2006, at the Molineux Stadium. The first official meeting on Monday, December 11 was attended by 16 people including carers.
The meetings are held in the function room at the pub on Penn Road from 7pm to 9pm on the second Monday of each month. The April meeting will be on Monday 16th due to the Bank Holiday.
The idea of the monthly gathering is to provide a safe, welcoming environment for people with dementia and their family, friends and carers, in the company of other carers, volunteers, health and social care professionals.
It aims to provide emotional support, information and the opportunity for discussion for people living with the impact of a dementia.
Meetings are free and tea and coffee is available at no charge. The café is open to anyone with memory problems or dementia and their families, friends or carers.
Wolverhampton City Council’s co-ordinated small grants scheme is funding the project until July 2007. If the café is successful, it is hoped that further funding will be found to continue the service.
Sister Moni Grizzell is a research nurse based at Penn Hospital for mental health in Wolverhampton.
For further information about the Wolverhampton Alz Café call Irene Paddock on 01902 446098 or Mavis Yeomans on 01902 741505.
Issued by the press office.