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Joy On The Journey to Happy Days Event!

Dementia Together recently hosted a spectacular, enjoyable and a fun fund-raising event at The Ranch in Loveland. The 1950s theme added to the fun, excitement and prompted many in attendance to relive memories of their lives and 50s experiences. The occasion was a reason to come away with new memories too! Event guests were provided …

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Joy on the Journey to Happy Days Event

Dementia Together recently hosted a spectacular, enjoyable and a fun fund-raising event at The Ranch in Loveland. The 1950s theme added to the fun, excitement and prompted many in attendance to relive memories of their lives and 50s experiences. The occasion was a reason to come away with new memories too! Event guests were provided …

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Memory Cafes Making Impact For Dementia Community!

A Dementia Together memory café participant shared: “I can’t even find the words to express how blown away I was at the Memory Cafe today…I enjoyed the youth volunteers so much and quite obviously everyone else did too! The guitar player was delightful. We knew every word of every song. The cookies and ice cream …

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Memory Cafes Making Impact for Dementia Community

A Dementia Together memory café participant shared: “I can’t even find the words to express how blown away I was at the Memory Cafe today…I enjoyed the youth volunteers so much and quite obviously everyone else did too! The guitar player was delightful. We knew every word of every song. The cookies and ice cream …

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Dementia Together Receives BBB Nonprofit Torch Award!

In April, the Better Business Bureau serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming recognized Dementia Together as the BBB 2023 Nonprofit Torch Award for Ethics winner! The Torch Award for Ethics is the most prestigious award BBB can present to a business and nonprofit. This program honors organizations whose leaders demonstrate a high level of personal character; …

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Holiday Get Togethers

At a recent Dementia Together “SPECAL” workshop, we discussed how loved ones with dementia sometimes withdraw or become agitated during family gatherings. The assumption is often made, “it’s just part of the disease.” At Dementia Together, we agree: Withdrawal or expressions of agitation are part of disease. The disease of trying to navigate life surrounded …

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The Lodge at Greeley Senior Living Hosts Grand Opening

A year after officially opening to local seniors, The Lodge at Greeley Senior Living, located at 4430 24th Street Road, hosted a grand opening celebration in June. The event was postponed a year due to the pandemic. The Greeley Chamber of Commerce stopped by to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and residents, staff, families and other …

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Living with Dementia

After Anthony Hopkins recently won the Oscar for best actor in THE FATHER, our Dementia Together team figured we’d better view the film. It was as promised: Creatively compelling and hopelessly heart-breaking–everything the cultural tragedy narrative around dementia would have us believe is inevitable and true. THE FATHER shows Anthony developing signs of dementia and …

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New name. Same mission.

“Dementia-Friendly Communities of Northern Colorado” is now Dementia Together. The dementia journey can be overwhelming, but we believe no one has to walk it alone. Even now. Through education and enrichment, we’re working to make living well with dementia the expectation, not the exception. We are still finding ways, even in the culture of physical …

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