This month at the Alzheimer Society.
May 2025
Grimsby Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join other care partners for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Brain Wave Café Beamsville
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Brain Wave Café St. Catharines
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Evening Support Group
Join other care partners virtually on the first and third Thursday of the month for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Virtual Brain Wave Café
Our virtual Brain Wave Café is a drop-in group offering a welcoming place online for people to meet regularly and share their experiences.
Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group
This Time Limited support group is designed for care partners of people living with frontotemporal dementia.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Art Expressions
Art Expressions is a painting class for individuals living with dementia and their care partners - no experience required!
Brain Wave Café Welland
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Dementia Education Series: Next Steps & Care Essentials (Evening)
4-part series offering an opportunity for families and friends of individuals with a diagnosis of dementia to learn more about dementia, develop caregiving strategies, and become familiar with community resources and supports.
Young Onset Dementia
Distinguishing Young onset dementia from Late onset dementia, developing a basic understanding of the genetic component of Young onset dementia, and more.
Port Colborne Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join other care partners for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Brain Wave Café Ridgeway
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Understanding Vascular Dementia
Join us as we learn more about vascular dementia - the second leading form of dementia, accounting for up to 20% of all cases.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Support Group
Join us for our Support Group in Niagara-on-the-Lake on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month!
Loss and Grief
Explore the concept of ambiguous loss, develop coping strategies and gain understanding of feelings of grief when caring for a person living with dementia.
Sole Mates Walking Group
Walking has so many benefits for our physical health but it is also good for our mental health, especially when we walk together!
Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group
This Time Limited support group is designed for care partners of people living with frontotemporal dementia.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Understanding the Progression and Stages of Dementia
This webinar will provide an overview to understand what progression means in the context of dementia and how those changes affect all involved.
Men's Social and Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a male care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join us for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
St. Catharines Support Group
This Time Limited 8-session biweekly support group will provide guidance and coping mechanisms according to the needs and interests of the group.
Welland Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join other care partners for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Brain Wave Café Niagara Falls
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Grimsby Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join other care partners for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Power of Music
Reminisce to your favourite songs and participate in music-themed activities.
Aging and the Senses
This presentation will cover sensory changes that occur with aging, reflecting on what a person may experience physically as they age, and identifying issues related to activities of daily living and/or instrumental activities of daily living for aging clients/residents.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Brain Wave Café Beamsville
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Brain Wave Café St. Catharines
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Evening Support Group
Join other care partners virtually on the first and third Thursday of the month for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Sole Mates Walking Group
Walking has so many benefits for our physical health but it is also good for our mental health, especially when we walk together!
Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group
This Time Limited support group is designed for care partners of people living with frontotemporal dementia.
Connections First
Join us for an interactive session that explores living well with or without memory changes.
Art Expressions
Art Expressions is a painting class for individuals living with dementia and their care partners - no experience required!
Brain Wave Café Welland
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Port Colborne Support Group
Do you feel alone on your journey as a care partner to someone who is living with dementia? Join other care partners for peer support and to learn new strategies that may help to decrease your stress.
Brain Wave Café Ridgeway
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Options for Care
Explore the care options that support persons living with dementia in the moderate to late stages of their journey.
Power of Music
Reminisce to your favourite songs and participate in music-themed activities.
Frontotemporal Dementia- Supporting this Journey as a Health Care Provider
Building on the learning points from the Frontotemporal Dementia webinar for the General Public, this session will provide health care workers with a very brief review of FTD then offer opportunities for case scenario work.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Support Group
Join us for our Support Group in Niagara-on-the-Lake on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month!
Dementia-Friendly Communities: Faith-based communities
A Dementia Friendly Community is a place where people living with dementia and their care partners are welcomed, included, and supported. It is a community that pays attention to the social and physical needs of the person living with dementia.
Sole Mates Walking Group
Walking has so many benefits for our physical health but it is also good for our mental health, especially when we walk together!
Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group
This Time Limited support group is designed for care partners of people living with frontotemporal dementia.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Staying Safe in our Golden Years
Learn about ageism, staying safe as we age, and available resources and community supports within the Niagara Region.
Dementia Overview
This presentation will discuss the difference between changes that come with normal aging and when something is not normal, reversible causes for these changes, and a general understanding of dementia.
St. Catharines Support Group
This Time Limited biweekly support group will provide guidance and coping mechanisms according to the needs and interests of the group.
Brain Wave Café Niagara Falls
Stay connected with friends and meet some new ones as you participate in healthy brain activities together!
Long-Term Care Transitional Self-Health Group
A 6-week session for care partners with a family member living in long-term care.
Power of Music
Reminisce to your favourite songs and participate in music-themed activities.
Qigong Exercise
Join us online for a gentle exercise class suitable for all persons living with dementia and care partners.
Working in Long Term Care Series: Session 2: Oral Care in Dementia
Learn about strategies to support the person living with dementia and their care partner(s) as they adjust to moving to Long Term Care.
Sole Mates Walking Group
Walking has so many benefits for our physical health but it is also good for our mental health, especially when we walk together!
Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group
This Time Limited support group is designed for care partners of people living with frontotemporal dementia.
Living with Cognitive Change Support Group
A safe place for people experiencing cognitive changes to share their experience and receive support.