The occupation of social participation: Memory cafes to promote engagement

Dementia is an umbrella term used to define a group of symptoms affecting memory, reasoning, thinking, language, and other cognitive abilities that result in impairments in an individual's ability to engage in ADLs (Joshi & Tampi, 2024; Prince et al., 2015). Diseases that result in dementia include Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Lewy body disease; of these, AD is the most prevalent. Currently, 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and that number is expected to rise to 139 million by 2050 as the global population ages (Joshi & Tampi, 2024).