Broadstairs & St Peter’s Town Council and the Broadstairs Town Team would like to work in conjunction with businesses and organisations to make Broadstairs & St Peter’s more accessible to those living with Dementia.
People affected by dementia are at the heart of every dementia friendly community. Businesses and organisations of all kinds can help to support their community to become dementia friendly.
By 2025, it is estimated that there will be over 1 million people living with dementia in the UK. Our aim is to make Broadstairs and St Peter’s safe and welcoming places for those with dementia to visit and feel part of our community.
We have set up the Broadstairs & St Peter’s Dementia Friendly Scheme, which businesses and organisations can sign up to. Once you have signed the pledge and have committed to our 5 standards, you will be given a sticker to highlight that your business/organisation is dementia friendly. The sticker will also have a QR code directly people to our dementia webpage which lists useful contacts and information for those living with dementia and their carers and your business will be added to the list of Dementia Friendly Places in Broadstairs.
Please click the link below to become a Broadstairs & St Peter’s Dementia Friendly Scheme Member.
Useful Information
Become a Dementia Friend
A Dementia Friend is somebody that learns about dementia so they can help their community.
Too many people affected by dementia feel that society fails to understand the condition they live with. Dementia Friends help by raising awareness and understanding, so that people living with dementia can continue to live in the way they want.
It’s really easy to become a Dementia Friend. Click on the link below to find the joining options.
https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/WEBArticle?page=join-options
Positive Language document
An Alzheimer’s Society guide to talking about dementia.
Keith Oliver
In this film, Keith Oliver explains his role as a dementia envoy and his determination to help others to aspire to living a full life after a dementia diagnosis.
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Dementia Contacts
EKIDS – EKIDS coffee mornings, groups, events and outings are places where you can be with people who are in or have been in similar circumstances to yourself.
Our volunteers facilitate gatherings where often the support is peer to peer. We also have visiting health care professionals and can signpost you to resources, people and organisations that may be able to help you along your dementia journey.
You do not need a formal dementia diagnosis to attend any of our groups, all are welcome.
Dementia Friends – Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition.
https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk
Kent Libraries – Clubs and activities in libraries.
https://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries
Kent Action Alliance – Dementia Action Alliance is a community group made up of local residents, public, private and voluntary organisations who focus on work in the Kent areas to improve the lives locally for residents living with dementia. Our principal actions and activities will be thosedesigned to improve the outlooks of those locally in response to the insight and feedback gained from the community, and as agreed by the members.
Thanet Dementia – The Thanet Dementia Action Alliance is a community group made up of local residents.
https://www.facebook.com/Thanetdementiaactionalliance/?locale=en_GB
Bright Shadow – Serving Kent & Medway Bright Shadow use the power of the arts and creativity to enable people living with dementia – and those who give care – to live happy, healthy lives.
Age UK – Dementia Coordinators – Age UK Herne Bay & Whitstable are proud delivery partners of the Dementia & Me co-ordinators in the Herne Bay, Whitstable and Thanet Primary Care Network areas.
If you are registered at any of the surgeries shown on the website, you are eligible for support from our Dementia & Me Co-Ordinators at Age UK Herne Bay and Whitstable, with or without a diagnosis of dementia.
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/hernebayandwhitstable/our-services/dementia-co-ordinators
Young Dementia Network – The Young Dementia Network was established in 2016 and is a collaboration between people affected by and working in the field of young onset dementia. Everyone is united in one purpose to improve the lives of people with young onset dementia and their families now and to create positive change for the future.
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Broadstairs & St Peter’s Dementia Friendly Scheme Members
