Author: Mike Phillips

Dementia Action Week challenges us to move beyond awareness and ask what inclusion looks like in practice, across services, communities and everyday encounters.

During Dementia Action Week, it is important to recognise carers not simply as helpers, but as people who need understanding, partnership and support in their own right.

When dementia becomes the dominant lens, people risk being treated as a set of symptoms rather than as individuals with lives, histories and agency.

During the month of Dementia Action Week, it is worth revisiting why diagnosis still matters, especially when conversations about dementia can feel difficult, delayed or avoided.