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 taking place on Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 12.30-1.30pm will highlight the the role of social care in enabling families affected by young onset dementia to plan for and cope with the financial challenges.

It will introduce a resource that has been co-produced as part of the DYNAMIC project, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Social Care (RfSC) Programme, 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.

In this webinar, Elaine, who cares for her husband Lawrence who has young onset dementia, will talk about her experiences of the financial impact and support to manage this. Dr Catherine Quinn from the University of Bradford will provide findings from the DYNAMIC project, centring around a summary of what we know about the financial impact of young onset dementia.

We will then focus on the process of co-production and the resulting co-produced resource, 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.