World Alzheimer Report 2019 - Attitudes to dementia

Honorary Vice President of ADI and a Vice President of the Alzheimer’s Society (England), previous chair of each organisation; Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Emeritus Consultant in the Psychiatry of Old Age at the Royal Free Hospital; honorary doctorate public services to the Open University. [...] This survey, and its dataset, will now form part the time of greatest stigma, and almost everyone pointed of the freely available shared resources we can use out that the real change in attitudes (both from the point from now on to measure our performance on attitudes of view of people seeking a diagnosis and from the point and hopefully make stigma a thing of the past – in all of view of the gene. [...] We need to change that, and we will work in the next • the media’s role in helping raise awareness or few years both on the issue of the rights for carers exacerbating stigma in the workplace and the issue of disability rights for • the history and influence of working groups of people people living with dementia. [...] At the core of the 2019 report are the results of a global In the World Alzheimer Report 2012 ‘Overcoming the survey, commissioned by ADI and undertaken by the stigma of dementia’ we explored the nature of dementia London School of Economics and Political Science related stigma. [...] Around 60% of people felt it was important to remove Attitudes responsibilities of people living with dementia which is interesting in the context that many of the experiences • 91% of respondents say that people should not of discrimination reported by people living with dementia hide the fact they have dementia and the vast pertain to loss of status and loss of roles.