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Participants across Scotland are putting plans in place for their Memory Walks. Gary Lunan is one supporter with plans underway.

The card is designed to help customers living with dementia travel by bus.

Alzheimer Scotland premiered a short documentary film in Glasgow to support Fair Dementia Care.

Martin Robertson was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, in 2016 aged 57. Since then, he has engaged heavily with the research field, seeing it as the route to a cure for this disease. 

Taking place over the weekend of 15-17 September. It's 'Your walk, Your way'.

A tribute to our former colleague who will be greatly missed. 

In recent days and months, we have witnessed an increase in hard hitting and in the view of many people, stereotypical and frightening images of what living with some form of dementia means, however Alzheimer Scotland does not support this approach.

The role of a Post Diagnostic Support (PDS) Link Worker is to support people who have received a dementia diagnosis (and their families) to understand the illness, maintain community connections, meet other people with dementia, and help them with future planning and decision making. Rebecca Macdonald joined Alzheimer Scotland in June 2022 as a PDS Link Worker and shares her thoughts on the role.

Alzheimer Europe's report states that, despite a marked reduction in the prevalence of dementia across European countries, the number of people with dementia is set to double by 2050.

As we gear up for the Big Blue Thank You virtual movement, Norman Williamson, Dementia Advisor for Alzheimer Scotland shares his experience of fundraising and being a key worker during the pandemic.