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Dementia Friendly Ireland Campaign: Breaking Stigma & Building Inclusive Communities

Join Professor Brian Lawlor and the HSE Dementia Friendly Ireland Campaign Team in breaking stigma and fostering understanding towards dementia, promoting inclusion for individuals and caregivers, raising awareness on risk factors, and encouraging prevention efforts.

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Dementia Friendly Ireland Campaign: Breaking Stigma & Building Inclusive Communities

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  1. Professor Brian Lawlor Chair, HSE Dementia Friendly Ireland Campaign Steering Group

  2. Dementia Friendly Ireland Campaign

  3. Steering Group Members Professor Brian Lawlor, Chair St. James’s Hospital/TCD Mary Manning, National Dementia Office Marie Killeen, HSE Health & Wellbeing Fidelma Browne, HSE Communications Dr. Emer Shelley, Public Health Specialist, HSE Dr. Ronan Glynn, Public Health SpR, HSE Mary McGuire, Genio Ronan Smith, Irish Dementia Working Group Margot Mc Cambridge, Carer Tina Leonard, Alzheimer Society of Ireland Sheila Caulfield, Communications, HSE Health and Wellbeing

  4. Tackling stigma & isolation The experience of dementia is often characterised by fear, lack of understanding, and avoidance of the people affected This lack of understanding and stigma comes from many sources: - the general ‘unaffected’ public - people who know someone with dementia - carers, family and close friends - health care professionals & health care workers .

  5. What we want to achieve • Build a community that understands dementia and is more inclusive and supportive of people living with dementia & their caregivers • Help people with dementia to live well as included members of our communities • Make the risk factors for dementia more widely known and support & promote prevention of dementia where there is evidence

  6. Progress to date

  7. Milestones 2015 - 2016

  8. What we hope to do today • Share our aims and initial plans • Share what we have learned in our research • Start a conversation about how we can achieve our goals • Invite your feedback, ideas, help and experience • Invite many of you to get involved and become our partners • A sum of many parts

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