How to Implement Dementia Inclusive Gardening: Half Day Workshop

Learn how to provide horticultural therapy and to select plants to support the physical and psychological well being of those living with dementia

Time and Dates available: 23rd March 2023 , or, 20th April 2023  – 10am to 1pm

Delivered online via Zoom

Cost: €50

Tutor: Joyce Fitzpatrick is a qualified Social and Therapeutic Horticulturist, Joyce has worked for over 20 years providing the comfort of nature activities to hundreds of people of all ages, and training healthcare professionals in the area of horticultural therapy.

Open to:  Healthcare professionals, Activity Coordinators, family carers, community leads etc.

The benefits of dementia-inclusive gardening:

• Provides gentle sensory, social and cognitive stimulation

• Increases well being, reduces stress, and improves orientation to time and place

• Provides opportunities to enjoy the therapeutic effects of nature

• Reminds a person of familiar roles and memories

• Helps maintain flexibility and muscle tone

The outdoors provides a wide range of opportunities for engagement, occupation and activity for a person with dementia. In this workshop you will explore how co-create a beautiful small-scale dementia-inclusive garden space with, and for, those living with dementia. Adaptable to a window box, planter or small flowerbed. Your tutor will show how to grow lots of colourful plants easily on a budget for delight all Summer through!

Joyce will use her extensive knowledge of sensory-enriching plants to show you how to select ones to support the physical and psychological well being of those living with dementia.  She will also provide information on how to adapt and improve the space you already have.