Activities for World Alzheimer's Day

Weltalzheimertag am 21. September
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Coping with Alzheimer's and senile dementia in everyday life presents enormous challenges for sufferers, relatives and carers every day. A diagnosis of dementia brings major changes for affected families. Worries, fears and uncertainties place an additional burden on everyday life. This makes it all the more important to make society aware of the issue.

Social acceptance and inclusion of people with dementia increases the appreciation of those affected, relatives, carers and all people who have to deal with the issue on a regular basis.

World Alzheimer's Day 2025

World Alzheimer's Day 2024

Information event on 20 September at the Metropol cinema

A diagnosis of dementia can throw your life completely off course. For the person with dementia and their family, the time afterwards is associated with many questions, uncertainties and fears.

The motto for World Alzheimer's Day 2025 is "Dementia - be and stay human". This message is intended to draw attention to the fact that people affected by dementia are and will remain the same people. Despite their illness, their experiences, memories, experiences and emotions continue to characterise them and are sometimes hidden deep within them. This often presents relatives and loved ones with a challenging everyday life. The 11th information day aims to show them how to overcome the everyday challenges so that they can be and remain human together with their loved ones.

With this event, the DementiaNet_C would like to inform and sensitise people about dementia-related changes in an understandable way. Interested parties can look forward to an exciting day with authentic testimonials, a panel discussion and a question-and-answer session that will give them a glimpse behind the scenes of dementia and help them understand it better. Information stands will provide knowledge about support services.

Dementia Week 2025

Dementia Week 2025

Information event on 20 September at the Metropol cinema

Around Dementia Week from 14 September to 22 September 2024, a wide range of events are planned by various stakeholders on the topic of dementia. The aim of the series of events is to educate interested parties, relatives and those affected about the disease, raise public awareness and enable better participation for people diagnosed with dementia.

All events are free of charge.

"Dementia - be human and stay human."

This is the motto of the Dementia Week in Saxony from 20 September to 28 September 2025 in Chemnitz, where various stakeholders are planning a wide range of events on the topic of dementia.

The aim of the series of events is to educate interested parties, relatives and those affected about the disease, raise public awareness and enable better participation for people diagnosed with dementia.

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13.09.2025
09.30 - 14 h

"Is it Monday or August?"

Dementia day - for those affected and caring relatives

Chemnitz Hospital gGmbH
Dresdner Straße 178
09130 Chemnitz (in the ballroom)
Katrin Rottluff
Phone: 0371 333-11482
Mobile:01522-2660845
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required

15.09.2025
3 - 4.30 pm

Dementia partner training

Become a "Dementia Partner"!

New Technical Town Hall
Friedensplatz 1 (city shop window)
09111 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 4885564
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required,
until 10.09. under 0371 488 5564
16.09.2025
2 - 3.30 pm

Workshop for young and old and dementia course

Workshop on "The changing brain - understanding motor skills, memory and dementia".

Chemnitz multigenerational centre
Irkutsker Street 15
09119 Chemnitz
Mr Ullrich
Phone: 0371 3685873
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
17.09.2025
2.30 pm

Lecture: Stroke and dementia

Every year, more than 200,000 people in Germany are affected by a stroke.

Pro Seniore Residence
Chemnitz Salzstraße 40,
09113 Chemnitz
Carola Schröde
Phone: 0371 3385816
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required, until 15.09.2025 under 0371 338509
18.09.2025
2 - 3 p.m.

Lecture: Sleep disorder with reference to dementia

Challenges of regular sleep with possible effects on health

Chemnitz multigenerational centre
Irkutsker Street 15
09119 Chemnitz
Mr Ullrich,
Phone: 0371 3685873
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
20.09.2025
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Open day

Get to know our centre, our team and our wide range of services.

AZURIT Senior Citizens' Centre Old Town Hall
Gaußstraße 5
09117 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 70090
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
20.09.2025
08.30 - 15 hrs

DEMENZ information day

with documentary film

Metropol cinema
Zwickauer Street 11
09112 Chemnitz
Tel.:0371 488-5564
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Costs: free
Registration: required,
until 12.09.2025
20.09.2025
11 am - 4 pm

Experience and understand dementia

You will have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the clinical picture of dementia through self-experiments.

Care service Am Stadtrand
Zwickauerstr. 454
09117 Chemnitz
Karin Weiser
Tel.:0371 80814042
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
21.09.2025
3 - 5 pm

Collective coffee drinking for relatives & those affected

As part of our regular get-together for relatives, we invite dementia patients and their relatives to Haus Kreuzstift.

Day care centre Haus Kreuzstift
Kanzlerstraße 31
09112 Chemnitz
Rebecca Türpe, Samantha Hengst
Phone: 371-3665126
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
22. - 26.09.2025
09.30-11.30 a.m.

Day of the open morning

During Dementia Week, our day care centre opens its doors to family carers, people in need of care and interested parties.

ASB Local Association Chemnitz and Surroundings e.V.
Rembrandtstraße day care centre
Rembrandtstraße 15
09111 Chemnitz
Anja Komor
Phone: 0371 6951326
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
22.09.2025
09 - 11 am

Lecture and workshop: Dementia and nutrition

The event is aimed at all interested parties and will be a mixture of a short lecture, a few suggestions for snacks (i.e. recipe and/or serving ideas) and a discussion round to exchange experiences.

Gleis 1 community centre
Oberfrohnaer Str. 2
09117 Chemnitz
Birgit Lasch
Phone: 0371 8208890
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required,
until 18.09.2025
22.09.2025
10 am - 3 pm

Open day

Caring means loving - but it also exhausts you. I am there for you during Dementia Week: with advice, understanding and open ears.

Mandy Staffa - Psychological counselling and coaching
At the market 5
09111 Chemnitz
Mandy Staffa
Tel.:0155 60324851
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
22.09.2025
10 am - 3 pm

Hands-on activities and tour of the day care centre

Please register by telephone, spontaneous visitors are also welcome.

Heim gemeinnützige GmbH Day care centre Reitbahnhaus
Fritz-Reuter-Straße 10
09111 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 27393727
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
22.09.2025
10 am - 1 pm

"Smell, see and remember nature"

The Dementia Week is all about nature and well-being. A lovingly designed daily programme based on nature, mindfulness, exercise, creativity and culinary delights awaits you.

AZURIT Old Town Hall Senior Citizens' Centre
Gaußstraße 5 and neighbouring park
09117 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 70090
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
22.09.2025
17.30-19.30 hrs

Lecture: Conversation skills and dealing with people suffering from dementia

The lecture will take place as part of the regular family get-together. Dementia care will be offered during the event.

Chemnitz City Mission e.V.
House Waldquell
Rabensteiner Str. 14a
09224 Chemnitz
Marcel Kaden
Phone: 0371 9098121
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
22.09.2025
4.30 pm - 6 pm

Digital provision and power of attorney

In everyday life, it can quickly become relevant when online banking or other contracts that are only stored and accessible digitally are required or have to be handled by an authorised representative.

Saxony Consumer Advice Centre Chemnitz Zschopauer Straße 107
09126 Chemnitz
Sandy Kühne
Phone: 0371-431500
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
23.09.2025
10 - 11.30 am

Digital provision and power of attorney

In everyday life, it can quickly become relevant when online banking or other contracts that are only stored and accessible digitally are required or have to be handled by an authorised representative.

Saxony Consumer Advice Centre Chemnitz
Zschopauer Street 107
09126 Chemnitz
Sandy Kühne
Phone: 0371-431500
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
23.09.2025
09.30 - 11 am and 2 - 4 pm

Workshop for family carers

Self-care, relaxation techniques, exchange of experiences, tours and hands-on activities in the afternoon. (Visits to the day care centre and care for relatives are possible during the workshop)

Heim gemeinnützige GmbH Day care centre Eislebener Straße
Eislebener Street 17
09126 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 47100920
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: yes, spontaneous visitors are also welcome
23.09.2025
09.30-10.30 a.m.

Experience sensory delights

There will be an active activity with a blind tasting of different teas, cakes, fruit and vegetables.

Heim gGmbH,
Care centre for the elderly
Glösa, cafeteria
Lichtenauer Weg 1
09114 Chemnitz
Danielle Nagel
Phone: 0371 4664100
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
23.09.2025
2 - 4 pm

Café care break

Exchange of expertise and experiences with family carers.

House of Encounter
Max-Müller-Straße 13
09123 Chemnitz
Mrs Gabel, Mrs Radschuhn
Tel.: 0371 2609455
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
23.09.2025
3 - 5 pm

Games afternoon

The main focus of the games is on concentration and memory training.

Heim gGmbH,
Senior care Altendorf
At the home 15
09116 Chemnitz
Mrs Mania
Phone: 0371 3818356
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
23.09.2025
3.30 - 5 pm

"Nature that stays"

On this afternoon, we invite you to one of our popular activity programmes, forest bathing.

AZURIT Senior Citizens' Centre
Old town hall
Gaußstraße 5 and neighbouring park
09117 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 70090
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
24.09.2025
09.30-10.30 am

Information event for family carers

Remembrance Day - Bringing the past to life + Lecture for family carers: "Because no one has to walk the path alone"

Heim gGmbH, senior citizens' care centre
Glösa, cafeteria
Lichtenauer Weg 1
09114 Chemnitz
Danielle Nagel
Phone: 0371 4664100
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
24.09.2025
10 am - 2 pm

"Cooking like in a summer garden"

Nature inspires and we experience this during our all-day programme.

AZURIT Old Town Hall senior centre
Gaußstraße 5 and neighbouring park
09117 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 70090
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
24.09.2025
10 - 12 am
Join-in morningArbeiterwohlfahrt Soziale Dienste Chemnitz und Umgebung gGmbH, Villa Marie day care centre
Max-Saupe-Straße 43
09131 Chemnitz
Katrin Uhlig
Phone: 0371 6956204
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
24.09.2025
15:30-16:30

Lecture: Making provisions, but the right way - power of attorney and guardianship law

People with dementia are dependent on help and support from third parties.

AOK PLUS - The health insurance company for Saxony and Thuringia
Wladimir-Sagorski-Strasse 24
09122 Chemnitz
Katja Franke
Phone: 0800 10590-61800
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
24.09.2025
16.30-18.30 hrs

Living with dementia - recognising challenges, seizing opportunities

There will be a creative workshop for people with dementia to develop fine motor skills under the motto "Hands in motion. Feel, grasp, create".

LEBENS RAUM by Radau e. V. Rößlerstr. 12
09120 Chemnitz
Irina Gopenko
Phone: 0152 24368119
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
25.09.2025
10 - 12 am
Join-in morningArbeiterwohlfahrt Soziale Dienste Chemnitz und Umgebung gGmbH Stollberger Straße day care centre
Stollberger Str. 90
09119 Chemnitz
Katrin Uhlig
Phone: 0371 6956204
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
25.09.2025
10 - 11 am
and 2 - 5 pm

Tour of the Zeisigwald residential community - living together for people with dementia

The self-managed residential community introduces itself and its concept. Participation in care and activity programmes is possible.

Residential community Am Zeisigwald Zeisigwaldstraße 73-75
09130 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 91223441Costs: free
Registration: required
25.09.2025
10 - 11 am
and 2 - 4 pm

Hands-on activities and tour of the day care centre

Tour of the Zeisigwald residential community - living together for people with dementia. Registration by telephone is requested, spontaneous visitors are also welcome.

Heim gemeinnützige GmbH, Zeisigwaldstraße day care centre
Zeisigwaldstraße 73-75
09130 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 91223441
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
25.09.2025
09.30-10.30 am

Biography session

Our colleagues show how dementia sufferers can be actively involved and how memories from their own past can be brought back to life.

Heim gGmbH, senior citizens' care centre
Glösa, cafeteria
Lichtenauer Weg 1
09114 Chemnitz
Mrs Danielle Nagel
Phone: 0371 4664100
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
25.09.2025
10 am - 5 pm

"Beautiful things from nature"

Nature inspires and we experience this during our all-day programme.

AZURIT Senior Citizens' Centre Old Town Hall
Gaußstraße 5 and neighbouring park 09117 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 70090
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
25.09.2025
1 - 4 pm

Dementia self-awareness with the dementia course "Hands-on dementia"

The dementia course simulates the symptoms of dementia.

Arbeiterwohlfahrt Soziale Dienste Chemnitz und Umgebung gGmbH "Marie-Juchacz-Haus"
Max-Saupe-Str. 43
09131 Chemnitz
Luisa Becher
Phone: 0371 46676671
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Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
25.09.2025
2 - 4 pm

Afternoon for family carers at the BIP Care School Chemnitz

We advise family carers on the topic of dementia with useful tips for everyday life, information on the clinical picture and regional support.

BIP Chemnitz Vocational School for Nursing Professions & Social Services Bernhardstraße 68
09126 Chemnitz
Michelle Gierschik
Phone: 0371-5265557
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: yes, relatives suffering from dementia may be brought along, we ask for prior information
25.09.2025
3 - 4.30 pm

Lecture: "Dementia and nutrition"

Lecture, followed by a round table discussion to share experiences

Heim gemeinnützige GmbH, Einsiedel meeting centre Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79a
09123 Chemnitz
Steffi Barthold
Phone: 037209 2553
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
25.09.2025
3 - 7 pm

Tea dance for family carers

Entertaining afternoon with entertainment, social exchange, counselling and support from employees of the social service of the inpatient facility

Haus am Zeißigwald (cafeteria) Fürstenstraße 264
09130 Chemnitz
Kay Bellmann
Phone: 0371 7475111
Send e-mail
Cost: 7 euros
Registration: not required
25.09.2025
3.30 pm - 7 pm

Film: Honey in the head

Film, followed by dinner together

Quer Beet Sociocultural Centre Rosenplatz 4
09126 Chemnitz
Mrs K. Molnar
Phone: 0371 5905948
Send e-mail
Costs: UKB dinner: 12 € members, guests: 14 € Registration: required by 19.09.2025
25.09.2025
3 - 6 pm

Open day

Enjoy a unique and educational experience at our nursing school.

WBS Training Schulen gGmbH, Kauffahrtei 25, Entrance C
09120 Chemnitz
Laura Haase
Phone: 0151 64020902
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
26.09.2025
09.30-10.30 a.m.

Wellness for body and soul

We are offering a wellness day for body and soul for our residents. Anyone interested is welcome to be inspired in dealing with relatives with dementia.

Heim gGmbH, senior citizens' care centre
Glösa, cafeteria
Lichtenauer Weg 1
09114 Chemnitz
Danielle Nagel
Phone: 0371 4664100
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
26.09.2025
1 - 5 pm

"Find peace in nature"

The week of dementia is all about nature and well-being.

AZURIT Senior Citizens' Centre Altes Rathaus Gaußstraße 5 and adjoining park 09117 ChemnitzPhone: 0371 70090
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required
26.09.2025
13.30-15.30 hrs

Aids in care and measures to improve the living environment

The themed afternoon is aimed at family carers who can find out about the use of aids in care and measures to improve the living environment in order to make everyday care easier.

Reha-aktiv GmbH
Zwickauer Street 73
09112 Chemnitz
Phone: 0371 488 5552
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: required by 22.09.2025
27.09.2025
11 am - 4 pm

Experience and understand dementia

You will have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the clinical picture of dementia through self-experiments.

Care service Am Stadtrand
Zwickauerstr. 454
09117 Chemnitz
Karin Weiser
Tel.: 0371 80814042
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: not required
28.09.2025
10 - 12 am
Dementia-sensitive church serviceEvangelical Lutheran St Andrew's Church Chemnitz Pfarrstraße 2
09126 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371 33506573Cost: free of charge
Registration: not required
30.09.2025
10 - 12 am
Basic knowledge of basal stimulationCity Mission Chemnitz e.V.
Matthias Claudius House
Max-Schäller-Straße 3
09122 Chemnitz
Katrin Schubert
Phone: 0371 23923231
Send e-mail
Costs: free of charge
Registration: yes,
Please register by phone or email by 29.09.2025.
There is the possibility of caring for relatives during this time.