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Our Irish in Britain Cuimhne team invites you to a special Thoughtful Thursday on "Sporting Activities and Young Onset Dementia with Peaceful Place: shared learning and inspiration".
We are delighted to welcome members of Peaceful Place together with CEO Charlotte Curran, well known and respected across our Irish community as a former Heath Coordinator for Irish in Britain and co-founder of our Cuimhne work.
Peaceful Place is an activities centre where people living with early stage dementia come together to share, learn and support each other. Various activities of choice are available such as sports, arts and crafts, poetry writing, music therapy, gardening, knitting etc. Peaceful Place recognises persons diagnosed with dementia as experts by experience and is guided by their ambitions and requests.
Peer support is central to its service where members share, support and inspire each other on how to live with a diagnosis of dementia. The team of staff and volunteers facilitates opportunities, provides transport to and from services, provides cooked breakfast and lunch and ensures the space is safe and friendly.
Young-onset dementia affects people of working age living with dementia.
Peaceful Place is leading an inspiring sports project in partnership with Sport for Confidence, an organisation of occupational therapists finding ways to make exercise more accessible. The project aims to maximise the time that people with working-age dementia have, to do what they want to do in their lives.
This session may be of interest to all keen to gain a better understanding of young onset dementia. It will be especially useful for family carers and friends. It will also be very useful for volunteers and staff from across our Irish in Britain thinking about planning community movement and sport activities. The model of partnership adopted by Peaceful Place will also be a great inspiration for those of us thinking about inclusive projects in our Irish in Britain community. We hope to challenge negative perceptions people may have and showcase talent, ambitions and aspirations.