Community members living with dementia and their family/caregivers can enjoy special “Dementia Friendly” movie musicals thanks to the Naperville Park District and Dementia Friendly Naperville.
For ages 50 and up, participants can enjoy free movie musicals from the 1920’s all the way up to the 1980’s in a comfortably decorated lounge with movie theater seats at the Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center.
The lounge is dementia friendly, meaning that the movies are low volume, and low light (not full darkness). Attendees get to choose the movie, and this helps to give back decision-making to those who live with dementia…