York Dementia Without Walls: putting people with dementia at its heart
Dementia-friendly communities can better support people in the early stages of their illness, maintaining confidence and boosting their ability to manage everyday life.
York Dementia Without Walls is an ‘action research’ project – which means that its approach is to talk
to, listen to and observe people with dementia and their carers in a variety of settings and situations.
An underlying premise of its work is that people with dementia have a contribution to make to society.
Rather than constantly being seen as dependent, there might be an ‘interdependency’ to discover
where people with dementia are naturally included and valued as essential to strong and diverse
communities.