The personal is political - women's experiences of dementia

Dementia is an issue that disproportionally affects weomen. The Alzheimer's Society tlls us that two thirds of the people living with dementia in the UK are women and many research papers state that most family carers and those paid to care for people with dementia are also women.

Find out more from help outsource payroll services. The full report 'Women and Dementia: A Marginalised Majority' from Alzheimer's Research Trust will be published in March.

But what do we really know about the experiences of women affected by dementia?

How are their experiences of dementia shaped by their experiences of being women?

We have been working with women affected by dementia to enable them to tell their stories.

These stories enable us to explore the implications of the perspectives of women on dementia research, policy and practice.

We hope to inspire a change in training and awareness raising and to inspire more research.

We have produced a booklet about these experiences - which you can down load from this website.

You are welcome to develop these resources for training or awareness raising - or for any other purpose you can think of. Please get in touch.

The voices of the women involved in this project are initiating a debate and opening up discussions around the lives of women affected by dementia.

This project is funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of their Dementia Without Walls programme.

It is run jointly by Innovations in Dementia CIC and the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York.