Dementia Friends

Become a Dementia Friend

Learn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action. It’s really easy to do:

Attend an Info Session

Watch our online video

Volunteer as a Champion

Dementia Friends Champions are trained volunteers who encourage others to learn a little bit about dementia. Champions run Information Sessions in their community and inspire others to help those living with dementia live well.

Register as a Champion

Get your organisation involved

If you register your organisation with Dementia Friends, you will get access to resources and information aimed at helping members of your organisation understand dementia and how it may affect a person.

Register your organisation

About Dementia Friends

Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition.

Whether you attend a face-to-face Information Session or watch the online video, Dementia Friends is about learning more about dementia and the small ways you can help. From telling friends about the Dementia Friends programme to visiting someone you know living with dementia, every action counts.

About the initiative



Latest actions

I am Oxfordshire Area Coordinator for Canine Concern visiting Care Dogs. www.canineconcern.co.uk. We take our dogs into Care homes. I am going to let our volunteers know about DF so we can understand the condition more which may help us when we visit. by Oxfordshire Canine Concern Visiting Care Dogs

I'm going to tell my family about Dementia Friends and use what I've learned to help my wife's grandmother. by Daniel Hayes

I am going to take part in the memory walk which will help spread the awareness of Alzheimer's disease. by Divya Rathod

I am going to promote dementia awareness throughout my organisation, and encourage everyone I talk to raise awareness. by Bernard Frigot

Encourage as many people as possible... Through work and church by Lisa Joan Barton

continue to care for those with dementia by annmarie madden

I want to learn about dementia some more and help my nan who has just been diagnosed. And hopefully help others around us to understand. We are hoping to take her to some local dementia gatherings. by Zoe Miller

Working in a busy Nursing home, I would like to be a voice for those with dementia and educate my staff about changes in the way we care and support those with the disease and how we can make a difference to not only their lives, but their families to. by Ellen Cattell

As a Pharmacy student, I plan to learn as much as I can about how what I can do to help those with dementia within a pharmacy setting. I hope to break the stigma of avoiding talking about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. by Abbey Stobbart




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