Dementia NI

Dementia NI is a local member led charity driving positive change for people living with dementia. We promote the right for people living with dementia to be involved in decisions that affect their everyday lives. By raising awareness, we challenge the stigma of having a diagnosis and offer support to others who are in the same boat and living with the symptoms. Dementia NI was set up by people with dementia to enable them to have their voices heard and improve services for themselves and others. They felt that too often the voice of the person with dementia was not being heard and due to that stigma, people were sometimes even afraid to talk to them. The original group also wanted to raise awareness about what dementia is and to challenge the stigma they have to face on a daily basis, even simple things like the phrases used NOT dementia sufferer and instead a person living with dementia. When the first empowerment group was established, they realised that there were many others o...