Hyde Park Named Chicago’s First Dementia-Friendly Neighborhood

The South Side community of Hyde Park has become Chicago’s first neighborhood to be designated as a Dementia Friendly community by Dementia Friendly America. No other community in Chicago has earned an official designation as a Dementia Friendly community from Dementia Friendly America.

To achieve the designation, Chicago Hyde Park Village, The Memory Center, and the SHARE Network at University of Chicago Medicine collaborated to bring the Dementia Friendly initiative to the attention of other stakeholders in the Hyde Park community on Chicago’s South Side. To be designated as a Dementia Friendly community, the groups had to convene . . .