SAM ROWLANDS, Member of the Welsh Parliament for Fflint Wrecsam is backing a campaign to raise awareness of dementia.
Mr Rowlands, a keen supporter of Dementia UK, and who often raises awareness of the illness is once again supporting National Dementia Action Week, running from May 18-24.
He said: “It is really important to raise awareness around the challenges facing those in our communities who are affected by dementia, as well as highlighting what we can do to support them.
“Dementia is a terrible debilitating illness and I was shocked to hear that up to one in two people living with dementia in Wales do not currently have a formal diagnosis.
“Clearly we do need to keep raising awareness by supporting the campaign and helping to highlight this illness.”
National Dementia Action Week is an awareness campaign led by Alzheimer’s Society, bringing people and organisations together to act on dementia.
This year’s campaign is encouraging everyone to join the Forget Me Not Appeal as behind each Forget Me Not badge, there are stories of lives devastated by dementia and when we wear the badge together, it becomes a movement of hope, action and unity.
Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, every three minutes someone in the UK develops dementia and one in three people born in the UK today will go on to develop dementia in their lifetime.
For more information go to the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Action Week page.
