Deputy Prime Minister written question – answered at on 18 April 2013.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether his Office has a dementia strategy.
I consider dementia and mental health to be a priority for Government. That is why the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health are supporting the Dementia Friends Campaign with a grant of £2.4 million. This is being delivered in partnership with the Alzheimer's society.
The Dementia Friends campaign aims to train over 6,000 dementia friends' champions who will each recruit and train at least 150 people, resulting in 1 million dementia friends by 2015. More information can be found here:
http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/
This campaign compliments the Prime Minister's challenge to create more ‘Dementia Friendly Communities’, which is part of the Alzheimer's Society's five-year strategy, ‘Delivering on Dementia’. More information can be found at:
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1843
Yes6 people think so
No6 people think not
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