For more information and resources

This page provides several links to help you access further information about Meeting Centres.

First up, we have the main guidebook for how to set up a Meeting Centre, plus related resources:

• Guidelines for setting up and running a successful Meeting Centre
  • Appendices to the guide
  • Supporting evidence
• The Essential Features of a Meeting Centre
• A booklet for carers, by carers - We're all in this together!
• Coming soon - a booklet for members, by members

There are also useful information sheets and other sources of information:

• Information sheet on What is a Meeting Centre?
• Information sheet on Why open a Meeting Centre?
• Information sheet on What support is available to you?
• A related report on Asset Mapping which could help when trying to establish a new Meeting Centre
• Meeting Centre Blog - Keep up to date with Meeting Centre news on the blog
• Twitter - Follow @MeetingCentres #MeetingCentres 

You can also access several films about the background to Meeting Centres, their development, the underpinning ethos:

• The Meeting Centre full documentary (24 mins)

• The Meeting Centre Trailer (2 Minutes)

• What Is A Meeting Centre?

• Who Gets Involved In Setting Up A Meeting Centre?

• How do Meeting Centres help people affected by dementia?

• Adjusting To Change Model

• Prof. Rose-Marie Droes on the Meeting Centre Support Programme

• Adaptive implementation of Meeting Centres for people with dementia and carers - A short 3-minute video of Professor Rose-Marie Droes speaking about the MEETINGDEM project at the 31st International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), held in Budapest, Hungary in April 2016.

These films relate to individual Meeting Centres:

• The Meeting Centre opening - Droitwich Spa

• Leominster Meeting Centre

• Polish Meeting Centre

• Droitwich Spa Meeting Centre  - Age UK national have published this video and write up on their visit to the DSMC: ‘Music and Dementia support’

• Droitwich Spa Meeting Centre - Dementia Action Week 2018

You may also find this useful:

• Innovations in community-centred support

We will aim to add new links and resources in due course, but the Meeting Centre blog will also contain resources that may be of interest.