Memory Cafe

Memory Cafes

Provide a safe and welcoming environment where people with memory difficulties

Operate on a drop-in basis with no pre-registration required, although it is often encouraged.

Help people living with memory difficulties continue to find purpose and meaning in their daily lives.

What to Expect

People sign in, get name tags, get refreshments if they choose, then sit at a table with others and use the items on the table to get conversation going.

Library staff and volunteers walk around and talk with attendees about the items on tables, and, if necessary, encourage people to chat

Ice breaker that we do as a group, at individual tables, or both

Snack break

Craft activity

Anonymous senior person with arthritis drawing with green crayon at table in nursing home

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