In a new move for the patients with Alzheimer’s, Dubai Health Authority has launched a new service for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers called ‘The Memory Café.’
Dubai Health Authority, represented by the Senior Citizens’ Happiness Center has opened the café with an aim of educating, training, and educating patients’ families and raising their awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.

The café which opened on the occasion of World Alzheimer’s Day, on Tuesday, (September 21), also aims at educating about other types of dementia.

The Café is nothing but a support group where patients’ families are encouraged to sign up for the initiative as the group also aims to provide emotional, educational, and social support for the caregivers, too.

The service, which is based on a combined medical team that holds periodic meetings to raise awareness and familiarise families with dementia in terms of causes and symptoms, methods of diagnosis and treatment, providing the required nursing care for Alzheimer’s patients, introducing the social and health effects of Alzheimer’s disease, rehabilitating Alzheimer’s patients, and clarifying special nutritional problems.

Dr Salwa Al Suwaidi, geriatrician and director of the Seniors’ Happiness Centre shared, “The Memory Café is an informal and relaxed setting and will encourage active participation and conversations. The initiative will help family members provide the best possible care, as well as help boost the morale of patients battling this disease,” to The Khaleej Times.

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias suffer from memory and cognitive deterioration, abnormal behaviour, aggressiveness, suspiciousness, insomnia and incontinence and the Memory Café provides an opportunity to discuss tips on how to deal with these issues.