Hub Partner Dementia Ventures Projects

Thanks to an Implementation Fund grant from the Building Capacity for Meaningful Participation by People Living with Dementia project, the Hub’s Council placed 210 awareness-building placards inside TransLink buses in Metro Vancouver during the summer of 2022. The three different designs developed by Building Capacity project team members Samantha Pineda Sierra and Heather Neale Furneaux, quote Action Committee members with lived experience from a special initiative known as The Flipping Stigma Project.

These members’ comments reflect on what it feels like to be discriminated against because of their dementia. The campaign aimed to increase awareness and encourage open and respectful conversations about living with dementia. 

Even if you don’t travel on public buses, you will want to take a look at these engaging placards. Occasionally, you will still see a placard on a Translink bus!

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• Promotes dementia awareness with staff and required volunteer  and staff trainings for anyone working with older adults.

• Developed a Dementia Buddies for one-on-one participation in meaningful activities.

•  Identified assets & gaps in services for seniors

•  Adapted Salmonberry Days for inclusive programming

• Organized Fireweed Club for outdoor activities in Balaclava Park, including development of a pollinator garden that invites participation throughout the gardening season.

• Develops meaningful activities & designs inclusive spaces

• Purchases art supplies to diversify programs

• Developed a website to showcase Partners’ projects and opportunities to  get involved

• Invited diverse community members to become involved

• Collaborated with UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning students involved as Community Action Mobilizers to conduct asset-mapping of Vancouver’s westside neighbourhoods and promote community resilience planning for shocks & stressors

• Explored and facilitate van-sharing and public transit challenges and solutions for seniors living with dementia.

• ​Trnaslink placards featuring quotes from people living with dementia intended to raise awareness about stigma

• Offers engaging programs in order to help organizations make existing offerings more inclusive.

• Informs future policies and priorities in community and health settings for dementia inclusive communities.

Congregation members at Pacific Spirit United Church created an insightful four-part series looking at dementia from a community perspective. It’s called Beacon *shining light on Dementia” that is available online.

TLC (The Lunch Club) is a program for seniors as well as people with living with dementia in the west side of Vancouver. In 2022-2023, vveryone participated in a bilingual (English & Cantonese) four-part series about dementia and in group discussions.