Dementia support
Phone: 0333 150 3456
Working hours: Mon to Weds: 9am – 8pm, Thurs and Fri: 9am – 5pm, Sat and Sun: 10am – 4pm
Fundraising and general enquiries
Phone: 0330 333 0804
Working hours: 8am to 10pm every day
About us
At Alzheimer’s Society, we believe passionately that life doesn’t end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Who we are
At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future.
We’re here for everyone living with dementia
As a Society, we are made up of people with dementia, carers, trusted experts, campaigners, researchers and clinicians. We are the UK’s largest collective force of people with unparalleled knowledge and over 40 years of experience addressing the biggest challenges facing people living with dementia.
Our Help and Hope Strategy
Our bold and ambitious five-year framework of priorities which underpins all the work we do at the Society.
A changing world
For over 40 years, Alzheimer’s Society has been a powerful force for change, improving the lives of people living with dementia.
Over those crucial years we’ve nurtured our relationships with people living with the disease, to better understand the complexities of delivering support within a challenging health and social care system.
We’ve spent time listening to people who deal with the disease every day, and amplifying those voices to campaign governments for change.
We have also been at the forefront of science and research, backing the world’s brightest minds and funding life-changing breakthroughs.
In 2021, we prepared ourselves for a world that was once again changing, and developed a framework of priorities to bring about the seismic change so desperately needed. We call this framework our Help and Hope Strategy.
A strategy for change
Our five-year Help and Hope Strategy will help us make the biggest impact to people’s lives. We’re the only dementia charity to tackle every aspect of dementia and give help for today and hope for the future.
We give vital support to help people manage their condition today. We also give hope for the future by funding new treatments that could improve people’s quality of life, while also being the loudest voice campaigning for a better life for people living with dementia.
Four priorities
Our priorities are clear: to increase dementia diagnosis rates and build the mechanisms to get people seamless support.
We want to make sure we can do that for more people by having deep levels of involvement, co-designing and co-producing with people with dementia across the entire organisation.
1. Reach more people
Reach more people – especially those who have the least ability to support themselves or each other, and the communities that rarely receive dementia support and experience the detrimental effects of health inequality.
2. Ensure more people get an accurate diagnosis faster
Ensure more people get an accurate diagnosis faster and then received a seamless transition into effective ongoing support, including support from Alzheimer’s Society.
3. To make dementia the priority it should be
To make dementia the priority it should be by influencing local and national decision-makers, and increasing public awareness of the disease.
4. Increase our impact and strengthen our understanding
Increase our impact and strengthen our understanding of what makes the biggest difference to people living with dementia. We do this by listening to and amplifying the many diverse voices of those with lived experience of the disease.
Information and photos taken from the site: www.alzheimers.org.uk