LAUNCH: From left, Michelle Kindleysides, Fiona Pembroke, Kim Klug, Cat Frampton and Brian Hamilton at Beamish Museum, near Chester-le-Street.
A PIONEERING guide to help heritage sites become more ‘dementia-friendly’ has been launched in the North-East.
Beamish Museum, near Chester-le-Street, has worked with English Heritage and the Historic Royal Palaces on the first ever Dementia Friendly Heritage Guide, which is championed by the Alzheimer’s Society and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The guide aims to help museums, stately homes, parks and other heritage venues and features practical advice from organisations who use innovative ways to engage with visitors who are living with dementia.
Rhiannon Hiles, Beamish’s deputy director, said: “The wellbeing of people living with dementia, and their families and carers, is very important to us.”
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