Awareness & Advocacy

As part of our role supporting people living with dementia and their families, we’re here to advocate for those who cannot.  This is both locally within our communities, but also at a National level too when the opportunity arises.

Alister Robertson – who lives with dementia mate wareware – and Rosie Chambers, Manager of Alzheimers South Canterbury, recently joined our Parliamentary Friends of Dementia group to share their lived experience.

From diagnosis to the hard realities facing organisations in terms of funding, here’s what Alister and Rosie shared with MPs at Parliament recently:

Reality bites – Alzheimers New Zealand