Denim for Dementia and curing the care system

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This year Dementia Action Week runs from 17th to 23rd May. PG resident Matt Wegner is a volunteer fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Society and is keen to get the local community and local groups engaged in raising money to help support people affected by dementia and in promoting a UK-wide campaign to Cure the Care System.

Good day, Palmers Green Community.

My name is Matthew and I am a fundraising administration volunteer at the Alzheimer’s Society, a charity united against dementia. I live in Palmers Green and know how much you’re a hub for local information about the community.

I am currently working on a project for Dementia Action Week, During the Week we intend to be anywhere and everywhere, raising awareness of the work we do and raising the voices of people affected by dementia.

Duing this year's Dementia Action Week please join us in calling on the government to Cure the Care System.

On Friday 21st (or any other date if you can't make it) we're asking local organisations to raise funds by wearing Denim for Dementia. See below for more details.

If you’re interested in finding out more, please feel free to use the above links to sign up to a fundraising pack, email back for more information, or give our Customer Care team a call on 0330 333 0804. It would be great to have you on board!

Best wishes,

Matt Wegner
Fundraising Administration Volunteer – Alzheimer’s Society
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Web: www.alzheimers.org.uk

Denim for Dementia

D4D Gen Women dancing 002Dig out your dungarees because it’s time for Denim for Dementia. Raising money to beat dementia has never been so casual!

Denim for Dementia will have you jumping in your jeans for a good cause! Get ready to don your denim and cure the dementia care system for Alzheimer's Society.

Take it to school, work, home or virtually and ask everybody to wear their finest denim and bring in a small donation.

Whether you are taking part on 21st May, during Dementia Action Week or at another time, take part and create a difference by raising money for Alzheimer's Society.

What are you waiting for? Set up your Denim for Dementia day today!

 

More information on the Alzheimer's Society website

This Dementia Action Week, Alzheimer’s Society is calling on the Government to cure the care system now.

Right now, the broken social care system means that in the UK, nearly 1 million people with dementia, by far the majority of social care users, and their families are struggling to get the support and dignity of care that they deserve.

Decades of underfunding and neglect have led to a care system that’s difficult to access, costly, inadequate and deeply unfair. And the coronavirus pandemic has exposed these failings like never before.

Until things change, a dementia diagnosis will continue to claim more than one life, as the families facing dementia feel its destructive effects.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

While dementia isn’t curable yet, the care system is.

We are calling on the Government to cure the care system now by committing to: 

  • Publication of a clear, budgeted, plan with milestones, with reform underway this year
  • Ensuring their reforms consider not just funding, but also improving the quality of care that people receive.

 

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Echoing the call by the Alzheimer's Society to "cure the care system now" (see the report above), today's Independent reports that "Charities and campaign groups have reacted angrily to news ministers are expected to delay an announcement on plans to fix the broken social care system until after next week’s Queen’s Speech."

Caroline Abrahams, the director of Age UK and co-chair of the Care and Support Alliance (CSA), accused ministers of “putting up with a grossly underfunded apology for a system that went past its sell-by date years ago”.

Others warned the government would “fail” millions of families if they delayed.

When Boris Johnson entered Downing Street, he promised to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”.

Last month he said it was “highly likely” that his plan would be in the Queen’s Speech on 11 May.

But yesterday Downing Street would only say ministers would set out their plans shortly, fuelling expectations there will be no social care bill in the government’s programme for the coming year when it is set out by the Queen on Tuesday.


The report quotes leading people from Age UK, Mencap, Alzheimer's Society and Sense piling into Boris Johnson, two years after he promised to "fix the crisis in social care once and for all".

Read the full report in the Independent .

To help the voices of these people who are thoroughly familiar with the shocking state of our care system, please sign the Cure the Care System Now petition .
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