Making Tavistock a dementia-friendly community
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Six members of the Rotary Club of Tavistock have acted as a catalyst to having the Town recognised as one of the first dementia friendly communities in the UK.
In April 2012 Tavistock Rotarians rose to the challenge of the Prime Minister David Cameron to create dementia-friendly communities by 2014. By using their already established local networks Tavistock Rotarians have facilitated and enabled the project to start. This has included the involvement of the Chamber of Commerce, shops, social and voluntary clubs, businesses, churches and many other local organisations.
Eight months later the Tavistock Dementia Action Alliance was formally launched at the Town Hall on 17th December. Angela Rippon, the Co Chair of the Governments Dementia Friendly Community Committee and an ambassador for the Alzheimers Society agreed to be the first patron of the Alliance and gave the key note speech.
Pictured left to right at the launch: Rtn Trevor Williams, President of Rotary Club of Tavistock, Dr Stephen Pearson, Consultant in old age psychiatry, June Wildman of Tavistock Memory Caf