Bristol Dementia Action Alliance

On Saturday 6th July, BDAA celebrated their first anniversary at Westbury Baptist Church by holding a charity concert with the Harlequins. A great evening enjoyed by all those attending!

Following two sessions on “Dementia Friends” and the “Purple Angel Campaign” from BDAA, volunteers at St. Peter’s Hospice in Charlton Rd become Dementia aware as well as helping people with Cancer

Following a “Dementia Friends” and “Purple Angel Campaign” session on 24th June, residents in Knightstone Housing, Springfielkds, Filton become Dementia aware.

Following a meeting between BDAA and Jacqui Mills on 17th June, Bristol International Airport is to introduce Dementia awareness into their staff training. This will make it the first Dementia Aware Airport in the world (unless you know otherwise!).

On Friday 13th June, our third”Is Bristol a Dementia Friendly” Roadshow was held at the Brunelcare HQ in Saffron Gardens, Whitehall. Local MP, Kerry McCarthy attended and gave her support to our objective of creating a Dementia Friendly Community in the city and also backing the Purple Angel Campaign to increase Dementia awareness.

BDAA are now distributing fridge magnets (like the one shown above) to GP’s, so that freshly diagnosed patients and their carers can be encouraged to seek help and support early on so that they can live well with Dementia. An extract from the explanatory letter given to carers is:- “Dear Carer, As the carer for […]

Local Bristol MP Steven Williams backs the Purple Angel Campaign to increase dementia awareness and “Tweets” to voice his support.  

Avon Valley Railway is the first heritage railway in the UK to become Dementia Aware under the Purple Angel scheme Tony Hall, a volunteer with the Bitton-based Railway, set up the Bristol Dementia Action Alliance after his wife, Barbara, was diagnosed with Dementia and it aims to help make Bristol a Dementia-friendly city “At the […]

Dementia Awareness Workshops have also taken place with Year 6 children at Elmlea Junior school as part of PSHE and will be recommended to other schools, young people’s clubs and uniformed organisations in Bristol in the coming year. All workshops included some information about what Dementia is, how the symptoms can be seen in people […]