New Team Members! Welcome Ladies!

We are excited to welcome Janine Appleby and Ellen Bragger to the Dementia Waikato team. Janine and Ellen will be filling the void left by Jill and Tom who both spent the past 4 (nearly 5) years with the team. Both Janine and Ellen are NZ Registered Occupational Therapists with a great knowledge about dementia.…

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Restarting Care Partner Support Groups Late April/May

We are now planning to restart our Care Partner Support Groups in Late April- May. We are currently checking venues to ensure they are well ventilated, to allow for social distancing and of course, they are ready to take us back! We will need to limit our attendees to those supporting a person with dementia…

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Our 2022 Hamilton Activity Groups will restart in May!!

Our Activity groups have had a bit of a revamp during the break. These groups will now include music, sing-along group, creative activities, Spin Poi, and light exercise. We are open to other suggestions as well. These groups will be spread over Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. Talk with your Dementia Advisor to see if these…

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Farewell Tom and Jill

In the last two weeks we have said farewell to two amazing Occupational Therapists who have been part of the Dementia Waikato Team for almost five years. Jill will now be found eating too much fresh snapper with her husband on the Coromandel Peninsula and, Tom has returned to the United Kingdom with his wife…

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What’s a Twiddlemuff?

Colorful wool patterns sewn in circles for hands to fit inside

The Waikato Society of Arts Inc is running a FREE workshop called What’s a Twiddlemuff? It is for anyone caring with someone or who knows someone living with Dementia. Create a Fidget blanket/Twiddlemuff at one of our workshops on either the 11th or 12th of April. If you have a sewing machine bring it along.…

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Leave no-one behind: Campaign to address digital exclusion

“Have you or someone you know ever tried to fill out a government form online? How about doing that on your phone? And uploading documents to it? What if your internet connection was limited? Or English wasn’t your first language? Or you were vision impaired? Or didn’t have a credit card? What if you needed…

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