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7-5-17 fdl senior center recognized as dementia friendly business

todayJuly 4, 2017

The Fond du Lac Senior Center is being recognized as a Dementia Friendly Business.  The center earned the designation after staff participated recently in the Dementia Friendly Community training.  The training gives employees knowledge to see the signs of , understand the needs and respond appropriately to someone with dementia.  Once a local business has gone through the training, they receive a  Purple Angel decal – an international sign that a business is “dementia-friendly.”  There are an estimated 120,000 individuals living with dementia in Wisconsin and over 2,200 in Fond du Lac County.

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