How Can a Dementia-Friendly Singapore Support You and Your Loved One?
A Dementia-Friendly Singapore encourages persons with dementia to continue living in their own homes and go about their usual routines in the community. This involves the community's members – neighbours, shopkeepers, coffee-shop drink sellers, bank tellers – who can understand and help them.
What is A Dementia-Friendly Community (DFC)?
It is a community where people are aware of this condition and understand how to make their neighbourhoods safe and easy to navigate in. It's a place where persons with dementia and their caregivers can live as independently as possible, while feeling:
Safe
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Loved |
Respected
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In DFCs, business and services are respectful towards persons with dementia. There are also resources for early recognition and support for persons with dementia, so that they are identified early and care and support are provided to them. At the same time, seniors can reduce risk of dementia with active ageing activities.
Our Dementia-Friendly Communities
The following organisations have provided their continuous support in building Dementia-Friendly Communities.
They have committed to:
- Ensuring their frontline staff are aware of dementia and know how to react towards persons with dementia in their line of work
- Supporting awareness and outreach efforts on dementia and building DFCs
- Putting in place certain processes to support persons with dementia and their caregivers