A pilot memory café for people with Learning Disabilities and memory difficulties.
Accessible summary Memory cafés help people without learning disabilities who have dementia. We wanted to know whether memory cafés can help people with learning disabilities and memory problems., We ran a memory café for 12 weeks for people with learning disabilities. We watched how people got on i...
| Published in: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 175 - 182 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2016
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