Dementia Awareness Week UK Day 3
For Day 3 of Dementia Awareness Week UK, we are previewing Kate Swaffer's recent keynote presentation, Dementia Friendly Communities? at ADI2015 in Perth. She talks about what dementia friendly means to people with dementia, highlighting some of the missing pieces of the puzzle in the Dementia Friendly Communities work being done around the world. Thanks Kate, and thanks also to Dr Shibley Rahman for recording it, and giving us permission to share it.
Whilst there are no speech notes to add here, the power point slides are available here ADI2015_DementiaFriendlyCommunities_Swaffer_Keynote_FINALbut the key messages are listed below.
- Treat us as equal partners
- Include us in every conversation about us; nothing about us without us
- People with dementia must be at the centre of the work being done towards dementia friendly communities, in the same way people with disAbilities would be included
- Being dementia friendly is not so much about being 'friendly', but about full inclusion, respect and accessibility to our community