WAYS of helping dementia sufferers become more involved in sport are being developed in York.
A Dementia Development Day, staged by City of York Council and local organisations, will be held tomorrow at the York and District Indoor Bowls Club on Thanet Road.
Groups including charities and sports clubs will discuss how to increase dementia awareness through sport in the city.
Representatives from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Dementia Forward, North Yorkshire Sport and the council’s sport and active leisure team will also attend alongside people with dementia.
The workshops will be piloted at bowls clubs and a York leisure facility first before being rolled out across the city.The council said it hoped this would ultimately be adopted across the UK.
Coun Sonja Crisp, cabinet member for leisure, culture and tourism, said: “The health benefits of keeping active apply to people with dementia and, in partnership with Sport Coach UK, we are delighted to support this project which we believe is the first of its kind,”
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