People in Pembrokeshire living with dementia are looking forward to the return of walks and Memory Cafe get-togethers
ONE in 14 people over the age of 65 are living with dementia – and around 42,000 are in Wales.
Today, Monday May 17, marks the start of Dementia Action Week, where the Alzheimer’s Society is calling on the Government to cure the social care system whose inadequacies, it claims, have been exposed during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Until things change, a dementia diagnosis will continue to claim more than one life, as families facing dementia feel its destructive effects,” said the society.
“It doesn’t have to be this way.