Social care for young onset dementia: the financial impact
Social care includes support to help someone live their life as fully as possible and maintain independence, dignity and control. This webinar highlighted the the role of social care in enabling families affected by young onset dementia to plan for and cope with the financial challenges.
Dr Catherine Quinn from the University of Bradford provided findings from the DYNAMIC project, centring around a summary of what we know about the financial impact of young onset dementia and introduced a resource that has been co-produced as part of the DYNAMIC project, to help commissioners of services, social care, dementia services and third sector professionals to appreciate the impact of young onset dementia on finances and how vital it is to have responsive, co-ordinated services.
The aim is to motivate commissioners and all those developing and delivering local services to ensure they provide effective support for people with young onset dementia and their families to manage their financial situation. She also discussed the process of co-production and shared newly created resources (a leaflet and animation), that have been designed to help raise awareness of the need for co-ordinated services to help families to manage the financial impact of living with young onset dementia.
Elaine, who cares for her husband Lawrence who has young onset dementia, talked about her experiences of the financial impact and support to manage this and she and Gareth, a former family carer, took part in a Q&A.
View Dr Catherine Quinn’s PowerPoint presentation slides.
View the animation created to raise awareness of the financial impact of young onset dementia on people and their families.
Webinar date: November 2025
The DYNAMIC project was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Social Care (RfSC) Programme.