As part of the programme through which the City of Zagreb is becoming a Dementia Friendly Community, the first basic training session on dementia was delivered to Zagreb police officers, firefighters and tram drivers, on 7 February 2019. This event marked the beginning of the City of Zagreb Health Office’s educational programme, which will further include municipal police, municipal utility companies and their call centres and members of emergency technical interventions. By the end of the year, the programme will extend to social workers and carers in homes for the elderly owned by the City of Zagreb. This first session, on 7 February, was carried out by Alzheimer Croatia and included topics related to dementia, its symptoms and ways of recognising it, as well as a workshop to help improve participants’ interaction and communication with people with dementia. The thirty participants evaluated the knowledge gained as extremely useful and expressed the conviction that they would be able to put what they had learned immediately into practice. At the end of the session, most of the participants joined Croatia’s Dementia Friends initiative.
