The Belmont, a care home in Worcester operated by Sanders Senior Living, the luxury brand of Runwood Homes, has, in partnership with the Warriors Community Foundation, become the second location to host the foundation’s dementia café.
The foundation first set up their dementia café in 2017, with the aim of providing a space for people within the community to meet, share support, and get to know one another. From 26 April The Belmont will become the second venue to host the successful café, which will take place every two weeks. The management team at The Belmont hope to welcome the wider community and establish the home as a support hub for those in Worcester who are living with, or know someone living with, dementia.
In addition to the café, the home is also hosting an interactive dementia session on 3 May, run by Paul Gaskell, director of wellbeing & dementia services at Runwood Homes.
Runwood’s Tommy Fellows, customer relations manager, and Sandie Preece, home manager, said: “We are so excited to be supporting with an additional dementia café in partnership with everyone at the foundation, we look forward to supporting families and those living with dementia and hosting these regular opportunities to help visitors meet new friends, get support and above all have fun in a relaxed setting.”
Carol Hart, CEO of the Warriors Community Foundation, commented: “The Warriors Community Foundation is delighted to expand its service provision for people living with dementia. Since our start up café based at Sixways Stadium began in 2017, we have seen an increase in need for the type of service we offer. We are now in a position to offer this service to more people out in the community alongside partners such as The Belmont. The Belmont has second to none facilities and we can’t wait to start delivering our fun and engaging programme of activity to their residents and the wider community at absolutely no cost.”
