The Purple Cities Alliance has made Knoxville the first Dementia Friendly City (“Purple City”) in the U.S. and continue to serve as a model for other communities across the country.
In a Purple City, community members and organizations execute specific steps to learn about dementia and help those with dementia feel safer and better cared for in our community. The Purple Cities Alliance is a team of local volunteers, practitioners, and community leaders leading this initiative. The Purple Cities Alliance provides dementia education and training resources that enable community members and organizations to become more dementia friendly.
The Purple Cities Alliance is encouraging all Knoxville and Knox County citizens and organizations to join us in the journey toward making Knoxville a Purple City. Together, we will make Knoxville one of the first Purple Cities in the U.S. and serve as a model for other communities across the country.
The Purple Cities Alliance provides dementia education and training resources that enable community members and organizations to become more dementia friendly. The Purple Cities Alliance is a team of local volunteers, practitioners, and community leaders who lead this initiative. We rely completely on the kindness of people who give freely of their time and resources to create a community that is prepared to lend a hand to our neighbors with dementia.
In 2016, The Purple Cities Alliance made Knoxville the first Dementia Friendly City (“Purple City”) in the U.S. and continues to serve as a model for other communities across the country.
In a Purple City, community members and organizations learn how to help those with dementia feel safer and better cared for in our community.
We are proud to provide Dementia Education to companies and organizations that would like to continue to make Knoxville dementia friendly. Trainings are FREE and can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the requirements of the group.
If you are interested in a Purple Cities Training for your organization, please email contactus@purplecities.org
In a Purple City, community members and organizations execute specific steps to learn about dementia and help those with dementia feel safer and better cared for in our community. The Purple Cities Alliance is a team of local volunteers, practitioners, and community leaders leading this initiative. The Purple Cities Alliance provides dementia education and training resources that enable community members and organizations to become more dementia friendly.
The Purple Cities Alliance is encouraging all Knoxville and Knox County citizens and organizations to join us in the journey toward making Knoxville a Purple City. Together, we will make Knoxville one of the first Purple Cities in the U.S. and serve as a model for other communities across the country.
The Purple Cities Alliance provides dementia education and training resources that enable community members and organizations to become more dementia friendly. The Purple Cities Alliance is a team of local volunteers, practitioners, and community leaders who lead this initiative. We rely completely on the kindness of people who give freely of their time and resources to create a community that is prepared to lend a hand to our neighbors with dementia.
In 2016, The Purple Cities Alliance made Knoxville the first Dementia Friendly City (“Purple City”) in the U.S. and continues to serve as a model for other communities across the country.
In a Purple City, community members and organizations learn how to help those with dementia feel safer and better cared for in our community.
We are proud to provide Dementia Education to companies and organizations that would like to continue to make Knoxville dementia friendly. Trainings are FREE and can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the requirements of the group.
If you are interested in a Purple Cities Training for your organization, please email contactus@purplecities.org
We welcome anyone to follow our lead and freely use our model and educational format. The document below contains all the points needed to complete the fifteen minute training. We then open it up to questions. Be sure not to give medical advice, refer questions about behaviors etc. to physicians and/or Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer's TN.
In the near future we will upload a video of one of our volunteers leading a training session.
In the near future we will upload a video of one of our volunteers leading a training session.
