Become a Dementia Friend

Learn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action. It’s really easy to do:

Become a Dementia Friend

Dementia Friends Ambassadors

Find out more about what it means to be a Dementia Friends Ambassador and how you can be involved.

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Get your organisation involved

Register your organisation and we'll get in touch to talk through what support and resource are available, how you can create Dementia Friends and what other actions you can take to help people affected by dementia.

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About Dementia Friends

Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition.

Whether you attend a face-to-face Information Session or watch the online video, Dementia Friends is about learning more about dementia and the small ways you can help. From telling friends about the Dementia Friends programme to visiting someone you know living with dementia, every action counts.

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Latest actions .

Help my workplace become more dementia friendly. I am also doing the Leeds Memory Walk this year by Ella MacDonald

As a pharmacy professional I will encourage my colleagues to become Dementia Friends and learn more about dementia by Jemima Thompson

I use this almost daily in my work place, as working within a legal sector we deal with people living with dementia all the time and this helps me be able to communicate the best way possible with them whilst determining how I can help them in their journey with us, as we deal with some of the most important documents in their life. by Sian Chapman

Make the community sessions I run, inclusive to people living with Dementia, through better understanding, patience & physical changes within the workplace. by Linda Sewell

1. Improve the training at work for staff to enhance their understanding of Dementia for residents 2. Hold events at work to fund raise for Dementia Friends 3. Be there for relatives when the are upset and support them to raise awareness. by Tracy Wright

We will promote volunteering opportunities to our employees. All employees that have undertaken Dementia Friends Training will wear their badges in the office and onsite. We will promote Dementia Friends through our social media accounts by Jaine Bolton

I live in an independent living retirement home and there are and more people with various dementia issues coming to live here. Our community needs guidance in how to approach these. I will try to help attitudes develop harmoniously. by Simon Kilner

We are home visiting opticians and are keen to share and grow awareness of the vision and dementia connection to help carers to better support those living with dementia. by Reshma Pancholi

Encourage my brother and sister to become Dementia Friend by Claire Redstone

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