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Overview
We’re a local charity committed to supporting people with dementia and the family and friends caring for them. There are around 1,600 people living with dementia in Jersey, and with an ageing population, this number is expected to double within a generation.
We provide emotional support including counselling and expert dementia advice, a range of therapeutic activities, social groups for people with dementia and carers and educational programmes for the local community.
Our overall aim is to help people affected by dementia to feel welcomed, understood & supported, and to help make Jersey a truly dementia friendly island.
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OUR SERVICES
Support and Advice
We aim to make Jersey a more dementia friendly island. To do that we provide specialised support and education services – including counselling, family support, educational workshops and training courses – that are available for anyone living with or affected by dementia.
Education
Specially trained Dementia Champions deliver face-to-face awareness sessions to small groups, schools and in the workplace that are aimed to help people learn about what it is like to live with dementia and asks them to turn that understanding into action by helping others around them.
Activities
We offer a range of challenging and stimulating activities designed to keep people physically and mentally active, allowing them to live their life as fully as possible. Our events and activities are available for people with dementia, their carers, family members and friends.
“When my husband was diagnosed with dementia earlier this year, it was very frightening and I have never felt so alone. My friends were there for me, but no one quite understands what it is like to live and care for someone with dementia until it happens to them. A friend told me to contact Dementia Jersey and I spoke at length with an advisor who was absolutely wonderful; it was as though a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders. I now know there is always someone there to listen if I am feeling low. I find their Carers’ Meetings enormously helpful. This charity is such a huge support.”
Dementia Jersey,
de Carteret House,
Hilgrove Street,
St. Helier,
JE2 4SL
