Dementia-friendly community for older people.
Family Salon. 
Recently, the Jiaxing Road Street Dementia-Friendly Community Project Team brought a lively and interesting support course for elderly residents and their families in Liyuan Community, Hong Kong.
Let's take a look!
part1 Dementia good friend.
At the beginning of the activity, the instructor introduced the five key messages of dementia friends in detail, and established a correct concept of cognitive impairment for the families of cognitive impairment.
Dementia is not part of natural aging.
Dementia is caused by a brain disorder.
Dementia loses more than just memories.
Even if you have dementia, you can live a good life.
The person who has dementia is far more important than dementia.
part2 break the sentence to find a friend.
Through the game of finding friends through sentence breaking, let the grandparents present recall the five elements they have just learned. This game helps to improve the text content discrimination and directional search ability of the elderly, and it is recommended to carry out some simple analysis, judgment and reasoning games with the elderly at home, which will improve the short-term memory ability of the elderly.
part3 Rhythm beat.
The instructor led everyone to pick up the hand bell and dance with the cheerful ** clapping. ** Rhythm games combined with movements have played a certain role in maintaining and promoting the coordination of hands and feet, concentration and distribution of attention, memory and executive ability of the elderly. In particular, the elderly should be encouraged to participate in group activities and feel the positive role of socializing.
Jiaxing Road Sub-district will continue to promote the construction of a dementia-friendly community for the elderly, not only carrying out various early intervention activities in the community, but also carrying out life empowerment guidance for the family members of the elderly in the community, enhancing the skills of family caregivers, providing emotional support, and jointly creating a more capable family, a more united neighborhood, and a more inclusive community.
Reporter: Lu Qiang.
*: Jiaxing Road Street.
*: Shanghai Hongkou.