Photo from a group provided for Respite for All, Montgomery, AL

Where: Needham Public Library, Community Room, 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham

When: September 25, 2025, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Cost: Free.

RSVP: Requested requested, but not required. To register, contact Stephanie at 781-444-2415 x2030

Memory Cafés provide support and socializing for adults living with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

The Needham Community Council, in partnership with the Needham Free Public Library, the Council on Aging, Needham Youth & Family Services, and the Needham Public Health Division, is pleased to announce the launch of monthly Memory Cafés that are open to the public (pre-registration requested but not required). 

Memory Cafés will be welcoming, stigma-free social gatherings where individuals living with dementia and their care partners can relax, connect, and enjoy time together in a supportive environment. 

The first Memory Café will be on Thursday, September 25th from 10:30am-12:00pm in the Community Room of the Needham Public Library. 

Subsequent Memory Cafés will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month beginning at 10:30am in the Community Room of the Needham Free Public Library, except for the months of January and May when they will take place at a location TBA.

With a wide range of irresistible, toe-tapping music from the Big Bands to the 60's, Broadway musicals, disco, and the Caribbean, dance movement facilitator Donna Newman-Bluestein will get us to stretch, shake, twist and bend together. Come ready to have fun and leave with a greater sense of vitality and well-being. If you've got a heartbeat you've got rhythm enough. No prior experience necessary.