The Leader of the Opposition and Liberal Democrat Group on Oldham Council, Councillor Howard Sykes MBE, has welcomed the start of Dementia Awareness Week (14-20 May).

Councillor Sykes, wants to raise public awareness of this important event:

“With most of the media focus on the uncertainty of Brexit and the outcome of the General Election, it might be easy to overlook this campaign launched yesterday as part of the Dementia Friends’ initiative by the Alzheimer’s Society, yet, with our aging society, dementia represents a massive health time bomb that we all need to know about and act upon.”

Councillor Sykes added:

“For the seven days, people across the nation of all political persuasions and none will be working to shine a spotlight on the devastating consequences of dementia.  More details about the week can be found on the Alzheimer’s Society website – the link is shown below.  Here you can find out more about what you can do to help combat this terrible disease.”

“In July last year, the Liberal Democrat Group brought forward a motion to Council identifying a programme of practical steps to help make Oldham Council and its public sector partners more dementia friendly, but we cannot do this alone – we want and need every one of our Borough’s residents to get involved so I would urge everyone to get involved to help make the awareness week a resounding success.”

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/info/20167/dementia_awareness_week