Memory Trails introduction

Memory Trails are designed to provide enjoyable activity for people living with Dementia. The Trail, most likely centred on a local church, is intended to evoke memories and prompt discussion and thereby engage people living with Dementia and their carers.

The wording of each section of the trail has been determined and endorsed by healthcare professionals in the field of mental health and Dementia and designed to encourage tactile and sensory activity.

As such, the specific wording used for each aspect of the trail should be followed as closely as the physical aspects of the particular church allow.

The reason for choosing churches as the preferred location of the trails is that many people living with Dementia are of an age that would have been involved with churches from an early childhood and on through later years and their memories of this are likely to be more easily recalled.