Our aims

With the focus on the people living with young onset dementia, their families and their greatest identified needs, we aim to: 

• improve the experience of diagnosis for the person and their family
• increase access to lifelong support for the person and their family
• increase understanding and awareness of young onset dementia

These are ambitious aims, so to make progress in the next three years we plan to:

• boost the Network’s collaborative voice in national programmes and campaigns
• evolve good partnerships with health, social care and other voluntary organisations
• help communities surrounding people affected by young onset dementia to understand its impact

Our approach is to influence through:

• campaigning to increase understanding and awareness of young onset dementia
• campaign for changes to policy, practice and provision for young onset dementia on our own and as part of wider collaborations
• empowering and enabling people – by informing and connecting those people directly affected and by increasing knowledge and expertise in professionals who work with them
• increasing knowledge through, and participation in, young onset dementia research