FOR Dementia Awareness Month this year, which runs throughout September, Alzheimer’s Australia NSW is calling for the community to help create a dementia-friendly nation, where people living with dementia are respected, valued and supported to maintain a good quality of life.
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It starts with each of us and, by making small changes, we can make a big difference.
In the Bega electorate there are an estimated 1600 people suffering with dementia, and that figure is predicted to rise to about 3540 by 2050.
Too often, people with dementia experience social isolation, partly because people are unaware of the symptoms and unsure how to respond to the changes in a person that they have always known.
The onus is on all of us to become dementia-aware.
Find out more about dementia, increase your understanding of the condition and its impacts, and help spread the word.
I encourage readers to find out more from www.
dementiafriendly.org.au.
Alzheimer’s Australia NSW will run events and activities throughout the state during Dementia Awareness Month.
Find out more at nsw.fightdementia.org.au.
The Hon John Watkins AM
Chief executive officer
Alzheimer’s Australia NSW
Professor Henry Brodaty AO
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing
University of New South Wales
