Did you know that two thirds of people with dementia in the UK are women?
This week we’re running a Q&A with Red & Yellow Care about living with dementia.
Here’s what Red & Yellow Care say: “We are a pioneering care provider for the over 50s. We are committed to dramatically improving health and wellbeing in later life by developing smarter and better care solutions. We provide bespoke and responsive health and social care services, with a specialism in dementia and other long-term conditions prevalent in later life.”
“Recently, we have sponsored a report by Alzheimer’s Disease International on “Women and Dementia: A global research review” written by Dr Rosie Erol, Professor Elizabeth Peel and Professor Dawn Brooker. It aims to understand the main issues affecting women in relation to dementia. The report examines the effect of gender on three specific groups: women living with dementia; women caring for people with dementia in a professional caring role; women undertaking an informal care giving role for someone with dementia. The review shows that the impact of dementia on women including those in the UK is significant and disproportionate, highlighting the need to provide women with much better support whether they are a person with dementia or a caregiver.”
Red & Yellow Care have organised a panel of experts to answer any questions you may have about dementia, and in relation to women in particular. The panel comprises of, Dawn Brooker (PhD, Professor of Dementia Studies at the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester and co-author of the ADI Report quoted above), Dr Nori Graham (Vice President at the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Disease International) and Vivien Ziwocha (Nurse Consultant and Head of Care at Red & Yellow Care).
Post your questions to the panel on this thread before 12th June and we will select 15 to send to the panel. We will then post a link to their responses on the thread on 18th June.
The first 30 posters who post a question will receive a free 20 minute telephone guidance session with any member of Red & Yellow's specialist clinical team.
That could be with one of the following specialists:
Consultant Psychiatrist
Consultant Geriatrician
Clinical Psychologist
Specialist Nurse
Occupational Therapist
Speech & Language Therapist
Dietician
Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ