The Dementia Declaration

Readers will notice that there is a new badge on this blog site - The Dementia Declaration.  This is a campaign spearheaded by the Community Care magazine and involving a number of high profile bodies such as the Alzheimer's Society and the United Kingdom HomeCare Association.  Thy are quite simply calling for a full debate on the issue of dementia during the general election, a recognition of the increasing numbers of people with the disorder and the the need to make their care an explicit priority when allocating resources in the future.

With over 820,000 people diagnosed with dementia in the UK and the predictions  that by 2025 there will be over a million people affected, it's not an issue that can be placed on the back burner. All parties who are vying for government need to be showing what they are going to do to tackle this issuee sooner rather than later.
Plenty of high profile luminaries and dignitaries are throwing their weight behind the campaign including Michael Parkinson, the Dignity Champion and Shadow leader of the House of Commons, George Young.  As of today the Declaration has 500 signatures which is a fatastic achievement and shows how how important the issue is.  I would recommend that everyone signs up to the declaraton today by going to:
www.communitycare.co.uk/demcampaign
Let show the government what's really important to us for the future.

for more information on how SureCare supports dementia care please see our website: http://www.surecarewarks.co.uk/