Your browser is no longer supported. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.
Pledge your support for dementia carers
Carers are struggling to cope. Pledge your support so carers know they’re not alone.
Many dementia carers struggle to cope. Even when it’s someone you love, caring with no practical or emotional support can push people to breaking point. Husbands, wives, children and siblings are being overwhelmed. Most never anticipated how their closest relationships would change. Some feel very alone. Some feel invisible. Nine in ten are reaching crisis.
They didn’t sign up for this.
Can you let dementia carers know they’re not alone and that you believe they urgently need and deserve support?
Pledge your agreement today, and together, we can make tomorrow better for dementia carers.
We’re here to help anyone caring for someone with dementia. Our caring team of specialists support people with confidential advice and guidance on practical, emotional and financial issues. People like Emma*:
Sisters Emma and Sarah have struggled to care for their dad, who has frontotemporal dementia and alcohol-related brain damage.
With young families of their own, it’s been hard to manage all their caring responsibilities. Their dad’s behaviour has changed enormously over the past few years. It now isn’t safe for him to be on his own. The sisters have been pushed to their limits. Every conversation with a health and social care professional to try to manage their dad’s care has felt like a never-ending battle.
Confidential advice
Emma called our Carer Support Line for some confidential advice. This first call was the start of an invaluable relationship with our expert team, who have provided information, advice, emotional support and direct advocacy for Emma and her family:
“When I first contacted Dementia Carers Count, I was on the brink of being in crisis. I was incredibly anxious and felt like I didn’t have a grip on all that was happening.
After being in touch with the team, I could breathe again. I felt validated. Someone actually listened to me and took me seriously. Not only that, they went on to support my sister and I to get the right care for dad, whilst giving us the emotional support that we desperately needed.
Lives changed
“Our lives changed the day we called Dementia Carers Count. The team’s support has been amazing. We have felt heard and understood in truly awful times. Katy has helped us to understand our dad’s behaviours. She’s also had the knowledge and expertise to guide my sister and I through difficult conversations with professionals involved in caring for our dad. She’s advocated for us and it has made a world of difference to feel like we have someone on our side. Our challenges continue, there’s no let up from the remote support we have to provide every single day, but we know we are not alone.”
If you know someone who is a dementia carer – please pass on our number 0800 652 1102 to them. We’re here for any practical and emotional support they might need. We want to reach people before they reach breaking-point.
One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime, either by caring for someone, developing the condition, or both. Estimating the potential future impact and return on research investment in dementia. Office of Health Economics for ARUK. June 2023
Our research shows that
We are campaigning for changes to how carers are identified, recognised and supported from diagnosis onwards.
Take action now.
Donate to support our work
Campaign with us
Partner with us
Read our manifesto for dementia carers, based on the things dementia carers tell us they really want and need.
Support for family dementia carers isn’t good enough. Take part in our 2024 carer survey and tell us what needs to change.
Dementia carers shouldn’t feel invisible. We have recommendations informed by our 2023 survey to stop carers from feeling like they don’t matter.
