Blog: Appeal for people with experience of dementia to directly influence change through About Dementia project

Age Scotland's dementia policy forum, About Dementia, is looking for new activists and appealing for anyone with lived experience of the disease to get in touch. Read on to find out more... 

Are you living with dementia? Or is someone you know?

Do you want to help create a more positive future for people living with dementia?

A society where people with dementia are valued and don’t just survive, but instead, they thrive.

A community where people affected by the disease – both those with dementia, unpaid carers and wider family members – are supported every step of the way to continue to live their best life through their dementia journey.

A world eradicated of dementia stigma, where every person is celebrated and measures are in place to enable everyone to do what they enjoy.

This is our vision too, and while we know we’ve got a fair bit of work to do to get us all the way there, that won’t stop us trying.

But we need your help. We need people who have lived experience of dementia to work with us so that we can ensure we’re asking for the right things.

Get involved

We work closely with the Scottish Government to create change and directly improve the lives of people living with dementia. Input from people affected by the disease is essential to this work.

We pride ourselves on focusing our work around the opinions of people with lived experience, creating a bottom up structure to our policy work, and giving people in the community a powerful voice to influence the direction of the future.