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:

Become a Dementia Friend

Dementia Friends Ambassadors

Find out more about what it means to be a Dementia Friends Ambassador and how you can be involved.

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Get your organisation involved

Register your organisation and we'll get in touch to talk through what support and resource are available, how you can create Dementia Friends and what other actions you can take to help people affected by dementia.

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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 work for St Barnabas Hospice by Deborah Guthrie

Swim for dementia april by deb trelease

Ensure all our staff are trained as Dementia Friends as part of their Induction by Olivia Houlihan

To put signage around the GP Surgery to make it easier for people with dementia to read. To learn as much as we can as a practice about dementia. by Nicola Masson

Be more aware and patient when questioning elderly people (all people) in my work; allow processing time. by Leesa Harbottle

They all seem like little steps I can take. I shall tell lots more people and display the badge proudly at work too by Elizabeth Zammit

Help care for my mum who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2022 by Ellen Christmas

I will encourage all of my close family to become DEMENTIA FRIENDS, and have posted the link to my business network to encourage them to become Dementia friends also. by Helen McArdle

Wear my badge during my nursing placement, become more knowledgeable about the subject, and tell other nurses and people about how to become a dementia friend by Rebecca Jones

I want to be the sort of person people would turn to if they either had dementia or knew someone who had dementia. by Sarah-Jane Giles

I work for St Barnabas Hospice by Deborah Guthrie

Swim for dementia april by deb trelease

Ensure all our staff are trained as Dementia Friends as part of their Induction by Olivia Houlihan

To put signage around the GP Surgery to make it easier for people with dementia to read. To learn as much as we can as a practice about dementia. by Nicola Masson

Be more aware and patient when questioning elderly people (all people) in my work; allow processing time. by Leesa Harbottle

They all seem like little steps I can take. I shall tell lots more people and display the badge proudly at work too by Elizabeth Zammit




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