After our inspiring and instructive talk from Heather Penwarden on Living with Dementia, all of us present signed up to be Dementia Friends. This involves helping to create a more dementia-friendly community in which we are more informed and so can work to change the way people think, act and talk about dementia.
As a Dementia Friend, you can pledge an action such as:
- get in touch and stay in touch with somone I know living with dementia
- volunteer for an organisation that helps people with dementia
- wear my badge and tell five friends about the Dementia Friends initiative
- carry out a personal action e.g. be more pateient when out in the community or help soemone to find the right bus
- make craft items like fiddle quilts
Here we all are: waving our cards and badges.
If you would like to know more about Dementia Friends go to dementiafriends.co.uk or email dementiafriends@alzheimers.org.uk or call 0845 306 0898
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