Dementia awareness
How you can help Alzheimer’s Research UK this Christmas: Six Supporter Stories
The festive season can be a wonderful time to share food, exchange presents and spend quality moments with your loved ones. But Christmas can have so much more meaning when we choose to give something back to a cause close to our hearts. We know that if nothing changes, 1 in 2 people will have…
Spotting early signs that could be dementia – when should you worry?
What to lookout for if you’re worried about your loved ones and dementia this Christmas: Dr Tim Rittman explains the early signs and what to do next.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – what is it and how close is a cure?
Alzheimer’s Research UK’s experts discuss what we know so far about frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Holding on to what matters and risking a lot to do so – what do people want from new dementia treatments?
There has never been a more pressing need to understand what outcomes people want from new dementia treatments, and the level of risk they’d be willing to take in order to benefit from such drugs.
Dementia understanding counts for everything in 2020
Dementia is becoming a particularly tragic storyline in the ongoing narrative of COVID-19.
Share The Orange – it’s never mattered more
The need for breakthroughs in dementia research, to protect everything that makes the human brain such a wonder, and to keep people from harm, has never been greater.
More to Uncover
We hope these films help the public appreciate the complexity of dementia – that memory loss is only the beginning for some and far from the whole story for most.
Thanks for sharing
Taking the time to watch the video will help many people to better understand the nature of diseases like Alzheimer’s, but by sharing it, the impact grows, and more and more people will get this important message.
It’s time to change the conversation
To accelerate progress towards life-changing treatments, we must also change the conversation about dementia.
‘Every day, every hour and every second with Mum is different’ Shobna Gulati
Looking back now the early changes were so marginal and so easy to put down to other things – tiredness, stress. You could always find an explanation.
