Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week 21

Alzheimer's Society Dementia Action Week, 17-23 May 2021

Feelings of confusion, desperation and isolation don’t just affect people with dementia, they’re symptoms the people closest to them experience too.

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.

It doesn’t have to be this way. With the right support people with dementia can live a good quality of life, doing what matters most to them for as long as possible.

This Dementia Action Week Alzheimer’s Society is calling on governments to cure the care system now. To provide quality social care, that is free and easy to access, no matter where you live. Because while dementia isn’t curable yet, the care system is.

Please sign the petition to reform social care.

Visit www.alzheimers.org.uk/curethecaresystem

 Or search: Cure the Care System

 #CureTheCareSystem

 Supported by Santander