This week is Dementia Action Week organised by the Alzheimer’s Society.
This year’s theme is “Cure The Care System”.
While dementia isn’t curable yet, the care system is.
Right now, the broken social care system means that in the UK, nearly 1 million people with dementia and their families are struggling to get the support and care that they need and deserve.
Decades of underfunding and neglect have led to a care system that’s difficult to access, costly, inadequate and deeply unfair. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed these problems like never before.
Until things change, a dementia diagnosis will continue to claim more than one life, as families facing dementia feel its destructive effects. – Alzheimer’s Society
For more information about how you can get involved please visit https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/dementia-action-week
Alternatively you can read up on this year’s campaign Dementia Action Week 2021 Information.