Dementia Resource Center

In conjunction with Dementia Friendly Worcester: A New Community Effort, Worcester Public Library is helping to make Worcester a dementia friendly community. Dementia Friendly Worcester seeks to create a safe, supportive, and respectful place for those living with dementia and their caregivers to ensure they thrive and remain in the community.

Being a library, we have always offered books on dementia and Alzheimer's. Books are a great way to learn about these topics whether the book focuses on current research in the field or someone's personal account with the disease. To assist Dementia Friendly Worcester in their efforts, we have created a Dementia Resource Center on the 2nd floor of the Main Library to offer our patrons access to information beyond what they can find in books.

Dementia Resource Center
2nd Floor of Main Library

The Dementia Resource Center offers patrons access to pamphlets and brochures that cover a variety of topics such as the different types of dementia, caring for someone with dementia, and local resources. Much of this material was generously supplied by the Worcester Senior Center and National Network of Libraries of Medicine - New England Region and created by the National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association. Both the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association offer valuable and reliable information on dementia. We also offer copies of the Caregiver's Guide produced by the Central Massachusetts Family Caregiver Support Program. 

We have added a few books to the center on dementia and Alzheimer's from our circulating collection as well. More books on this topic can be found in the Dewey Classification 616.831 on the second floor and on this Booklist. 

We hope you find the Dementia Resource Center a useful place to find information on dementia, information for caregivers, and most importantly, information regarding local resources in the area.