Md Talha BARKING & DAGENDHAM Volunteer Centre are hosting and offering a free one hour Dementia Friends information session to help raise awareness. The session will start at 12.15pm on 8th March in the Ripple Centre, 121-125 Ripple Road, Barking IG11 7FN. ...

A CANADIAN research team has found that the rate of dementia in the population is higher among those who live near busy roads. The research followed a massive sample – nearly two million people – in Ontario over eleven years ...

Muhammad Ismael As part of a character building initiative, Year 8 students at the London Enterprise Academy in London E1 have been learning about dementia and the effect the brain disease has on the lives of people. Dementia Friends Champion Emdad ...

The Alzheimer’s Society is planning to reach out to black and minority ethnic schoolchildren in Tower Hamlets to raise awareness of dementia and help pupils learn more about the condition. The charity has won funding from Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning ...

Experts working on a cure for dementia have made a scientific breakthrough which they hope will lead to new possibilities for treatment and even a vaccine within five to ten years. Nothing can be guaranteed – there have been “breakthroughs” ...

Emdad Rahman Councillor Khales Ahmed, Tower Hamlets Council’s Speaker, took time out from his official schedule to participate in an information training session to understand and raise awareness of Dementia Friends. The long time community activist and Bromley North Councillor ...

Jenny Fisher The Lansbury Estate Mosque has become the first Mosque in Tower Hamlets to become dementia friendly. Friday is the most important day of the week for Muslims worldwide, and it is the day when the Jumuah prayers are ...

Members of the Get Together Group – an initiative of the Barking & Dagenham Volunteer Centre for elderly residents aged 55-99 years – have taken part in and completed an information awareness session which enabled the participants to become Dementia ...

The Alzheimer’s Society has given representatives of the political parties standing candidates for London Mayor to explain how they would help people with dementia if their candidate wins the election on 5th May. To help the parties make their policy ...

Jenny Fisher The Barking & Dagenham Volunteering Bureau has hosted a Dementia Friends information session at headquarters to enable dedicated volunteers to become Dementia Friends. Seven volunteers attended the training session led by Emdad Rahman. Joan Brandon from Barking & ...