Programs
Programs occur as noted below. Garden tours are seasonal unless otherwise arranged. Creativity and Harmony partake within memory establishments and community centers unless arranged privately.
Please refer to our FaceBook page for program cancellations or alterations. We regularly update there!
Keep Growing
To visit, enjoy and experience the auditory, tactile and olfactory sense of the growing environment. We engage at local gardens to walk and interact. A sensory, garden activity is included for connection, memory and enjoyment. Take home journals are available for return visits.
Small group or individual tours happen at Arboretum Gardens with identical program content. This permits our efforts to be more personal.
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Praise and Purpose
To foster a time to worship and magnify God despite a diagnosis of memory loss. Worship is a soul event important to all. With cognitive impairment, faith memories are never lost. Reciting hymns and verses provides personal encouragement.
Youth assist with praise and music. They help with verse remembering and writing activities. We strive to leave each session having created and written a note to another in need.
Each session typically meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 1PM until 2PM.
PROGRAM FOCUS VERSE: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning: great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22 ESV
Join UsCreativity through Harmony
AIM: Use Art and Music to express the soul, release anxiety, and discover a creative ability from a not as degenerated right side of one’s brain. The key is in the process and production. The finished product provides accomplishment and reaffirms ability someone often doesn’t know they possess.
Programs take place in care locations, community centers and with individuals at home.
We consistently paint to music of many genres, however, not personally emotional. Based on ability and personal comfort level, we paint merely to the memory the music renders or to images. If interested we share simple techniques. We gladly meet individually where desired.
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Meet and Remember
These engagements combine elements from Memory Café models and Cognitive Stimulation Therapy. Social group engagement works to stimulate the mind and push areas of neurological connection in the brain. Each program holds to themes but is adjusted in the moment for those attending.
Providing pleasure, rekindling memories and abilities, engagement and reassurance of personal value defines the meeting's purpose.
Each meeting varies to date. We post regularly on Facebook. If unsure, please contact us as /programs
Join the EngagementOne on One Engagements
ADF delights in working specifically with families to provide resources. We assist with schedules, review living space for successful dementia functionality and establishing “meaningful engagement” specific to the loved one for daily use. We pleasure in working both with family and care givers.
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