Building a Dementia Friendly Reading

Groups across Reading are joining forces to support people with dementia.

In Reading it is estimated that 1,412 people have dementia. This is expected to rise by almost 23% by 2025.

Reading Borough Council is working with the Alzheimer’s Society to promote a Dementia Friendly Reading and to establish a Reading Dementia Action Alliance.

Local businesses, community groups, faith groups, schools and colleges, residential homes, charities as well as health and social care providers are all being asked to sign up.
Members decide what they can each do to help and deliver this as part of their commitment to the Alliance. Actions could include: a ‘no hurry’ supermarket checkout lane, raising dementia awareness in customer-facing staff, or improving lighting and the use of colour contrast in buildings.