{"id":1666,"date":"2021-05-17T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:00:22","slug":"dementia-action-week-17th-21st-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/05\/17\/dementia-action-week-17th-21st-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Action Week 17th &#8211; 21st May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Dementia Action Week organised by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Cure The Care System&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While dementia isn\u2019t curable yet, the care system is.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of underfunding and neglect have led to a care system that\u2019s difficult to access, costly, inadequate and deeply unfair. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed these problems like never before.<\/p>\n<p>Until things change, a dementia diagnosis will continue to claim more than one life, as families facing dementia feel its destructive effects.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; <strong>Alzheimer&#8217;s Society<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information about how you can get involved please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzheimers.org.uk\/get-involved\/dementia-action-week\">https:\/\/www.alzheimers.org.uk\/get-involved\/dementia-action-week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can read up on this year&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/05\/Dementia-Action-Week-2021-Information-1.pdf\">Dementia Action Week 2021 Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Dementia Action Week organised by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Cure The Care System&#8221;. While dementia isn\u2019t curable yet, the care system is. Right now, the broken social care system means that in the UK, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/05\/17\/dementia-action-week-17th-21st-may-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68830,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}