Dementia-friendly communities

These are communities that make a special effort to help people with dementia. They help to ensure that these people can remain independent for as long as possible. In order for this to work, a lot is done in the municipalities on the subject of dementia: for example, information events are organized. Through these events, the population learns how to deal with a person with dementia in the right way. The people in such a community then know what to do if a person with dementia can no longer cope. This helps to ensure that people with dementia can still go shopping or for a walk themselves.

In dementia-friendly communities, parks, public buildings and streets are built in such a way that people with dementia can find their way around more easily. At events, consideration is given to ensuring that people with dementia can also take part. In such communities, there are also volunteers who organize excursions for people with dementia or accompany them on walks.

There are no specifications as to what a "dementia-friendly municipality" must do to be allowed to call itself such. Any citizen can contact such a municipality with suggestions. You can find more general information and materials for towns and municipalities under the following links: