County council joins Alzheimer’s campaign
Via Stratford Observer [11 September 2016]
BEATING the stigma of dementia is top of Warwickshire County Council’s agenda for World Alzheimer’s Month.
As part of Alzheimer’s Month, the council is also promoting the Dementia Friend initiative, which helps people understand the small ways they can help those affected by the disease. The friends make changes such as visiting someone with the condition, volunteering for a dementia charity or making other people aware of the initiative.
The council hope 30,000 residents, businesses and organisations will sign up to the programme, which requires people to watch a video about dementia or attend a one hour session, over the next three years.County council joins Alzheimers Society's Dementia Friends initiative
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Honiton Firefighters are Dementia Friends
Via View News [13 September 2016]
Following a Dementia Friends awareness session run at the station by HDAA chairman Heather Penwarden, the station’s crew manager Ed Lidster said: “Honiton Fire Station is proud to be working alongside the Honiton Dementia Action Alliance to make our station ‘dementia aware’.
“Always looking for ways to support and help our local public, we had a fantastic visit with Heather and going forward will be able to better recognise and aid people living with dementia in our community.”
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Bristol becoming dementia friendly city with dementia awareness sessions for businesses
Via Homecare.co.uk [14 September 2016]
Bristol is on its way to becoming a dementia friendly city with its initiative to enlist a hundred Bristol businesses to hold dementia awareness sessions for their employees. Tony Hall, chair of BDAA, said: “Bristol Airport was one organisation to sign up and has made a significant step forward in becoming a Dementia Friendly Airport, with a dozen employees attending a Dementia Friends Dession.”
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National award for dementia awareness work
Via Grimsby Telegraph [15 September 2016]
Rachel West Dementia Friends Champion wins National Social Impact Award
Rachel, pictured, was affected by dementia at a young age when her paternal grandmother Joan Bell and her maternal grandmother Dorothy Fletcher were diagnosed with the condition.
Rachel decided to make it her personal and passionate mission to ensure as many people as possible have a basic understanding of dementia by delivering dementia awareness sessions through her work as a health and social care assessor.
She started delivering sessions at the beginning of 2015 and has reached more than 100 learners and colleagues as well as making 450 "dementia friends" as part of her voluntary role as a Dementia Friends Champion in the East Midlands to audiences including Women's Institutes, RNLI and scout groups.
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