Maire Devine (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have just come back from the launch of Understand Together, if everybody can do tweets or hash tags on it. The HSE and the dementia groups in Ireland have got together to make television and radio advertisements starring brilliantly those suffering and experiencing dementia. These advertisements will go live today, on RTÉ television and radio. I want everybody to follow and promote it. It is about understanding together the difficulties that those experiencing dementia suffer. Every day 11 people develop dementia and 500,000 of us have a family member with dementia. They are a good, active group. They seek an understanding from us that we all have a part to play, no matter how small, even if it is only understanding, reading about and supporting it. This is an attempt to kick-to-touch the stigma that dementia sufferers feel they have been under. They have been locked behind doors for generations. We need to make our communities and society much more dementia friendly. I would ask everybody to get clued into it.