Dementia Action Week encourages Australians to become well informed about the struggles, as well as the highlights of dementia throughout September to ensure that people living with the condition feel less isolated and alone. Alongside this enlightening week, today is also world Alzheimer’s Day.
World Alzheimer’s Day highlights the need for all of us to reach out to people with dementia in our community to let them know they are not alone. The theme for September, and especially for today is related to ensuring these members of our community don’t feel isolated. The theme of the week is ‘a little support makes a big difference’ with today’s individual theme being ‘together we can ensure no on faces dementia alone.’
Residents diagnosed with dementia often experience varying levels of memory loss and personality changes that may have a bearing on the individuals wellbeing. These changes can often result in feelings of loneliness and isolation. These feelings can be too familiar for dementia residents and their loved ones, the opposite of what we endeavour to achieve at Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc. residential care homes. We are committed to ensuring our residents living with this condition feel less isolated and alone.
Loved ones and carers have a heartfelt impact on the overall happiness and wellbeing of residents living with this condition. We all want to create a positive experience and emotional state for our residents.
