“Living with dementia is life-changing, but it doesn’t have to be life-defining” Council hosts Citywide Dementia Strategy launch event [Video]

200 people attended the city’s Citywide Dementia Strategy launch event.

The collaborative event included people across the city living with dementia, unpaid carers, Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations, care organisations, day activities organisations, public health, adult health and social care and health colleagues, including NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Commissioning Board.

The citywide dementia plan was approved at the Council’s Adult Health and Social Care Committee in October and its main message is that ‘Sheffield will become a dementia friendly city’.

Nine commitments make up the plan and at the event the speakers explored each one, asking for audience questions and discussing the next practical steps to make the right things happen and to do this in collaboration.

These are:

• Sheffield will become a Dementia friendly city
• More will be done to prevent, reduce, and delay, the risk of developing dementia
• Improved access to dementia diagnosis at the earliest possible stage for the people of Sheffield
• Support will …