Final Dementia Conversation of 2021

Working together towards a dementia friendly Brent: September is Alzheimer’s  Awareness month and to mark the occasion we ended our series of Dementia Conversations with a conversation with representatives from  Brent Council Adult Social Services and NHS North West London Clinical Commissioning Group. People living with dementia and carers, supported by volunteers from CADBrent spoke about their concerns and offered solutions to the unnecessary barriers they face every day in being able to live as normal a life as possible e.g. lack of support after a diagnosis, poverty of information on what is available in the community, poor access and poor quality support from  GPs, and an overwhelming sense of being unconsidered. We all agreed that this final conversation will be the beginning of closer working between the dementia community and statutory partners so that we can truly claim Brent is a dementia friendly borough.