About the Dementia Alliance

The Alliance aims to reduce the social isolation of people living with dementia and stigma and discrimination by increasing awareness and understanding of dementia to create a more inclusive community. This empowers people with dementia to live their best lives in a more supportive community and helps support families and carers of people with dementia.

Since its inception, the Alliance has helped achieve this with our action plan initiatives including:

• Dementia Demystified webinars series in 2021.
• Dementia Awareness Morning Tea at Narrabeen, October 2022.
• Dementia Expo at Dee Why in May 2023.
• Dementia Awareness information sessions at local libraries with presentations from our Alliance members.
• Creation and distribution of an information card, “Handy hints on how to communicate with those living with dementia”
• Northern Beaches Dementia Alliance website and Facebook page - with information relevant to our community.
• Northern Beaches Dementia Alliance Newsletter – with articles from people with lived experience of dementia.

As well, the Alliance successfully lobbied Northern Beaches Council to become a dementia friendly organisation in 2021, with our Council being the only NSW Council to have a Dementia Friendly Organisation Plan with actions such as:

• Dementia awareness training of staff
• Dementia friendly facility and document audits
• Dementia friendly improvements to Council facilities.
• A council staff member being part of our Alliance and initiatives.