Dementia Action Week events
- May 23, 2025
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Updated: Jul 7, 2025
Events across England have been taking place to mark Dementia Action Week supported by Alzheimer's Society.
Alongside the NIHR the Society has invested more than £7.5 million in applied research into Dementia supporting 60 research fellows across the 15 NIHR Applied Research Collaborations. During Action Dementia Week those research fellows have been speaking to people with dementia and their carers about their work.
Read more about the events below:
Kent, Surrey & Sussex
Here's a gallery of pictures from those events:
Pauline Jones at the Dementia Community Research Network Event in South London Chai and Chat: South Asian Dementia Café - Leeds Chai and Chat: South Asian Dementia Café - Leeds Chai and Chat: South Asian Dementia Café - Leeds 
Exhibitions in Whitstable and Shoreham by Support That Matters 
Exhibitions were held in galleries in Whistable and Shoreham 
Words of people living with dementia from a series of workshops & art exhibitions in Sussex & Kent Let's Talk: 3D (Diabetes, Depression, & Dementia) Prevention for Everyone (Tai Chi Session in Leeds Let's Talk: 3D (Diabetes, Depression, & Dementia) Prevention for Everyone (Tai Chi Session in Leeds Orii, Esther and Neil at their Dementia Action Week event at the Art Exchange in Nottingham The Dementia Community Research Network hosted an engagement event in south London, Stanstead Lodge 
NIHR ARC West Dementia Research Fellows Katie Breheny, Lis Grey and Natasha Woodstoke and interns 
The event was organised to mark Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Action Week on 19-25 May 
Attendees became ‘museum detectives’ uncovering clues in famous artworks and then got hands-on with 
The event was organised to mark Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Action Week on 19-25 May 
The event was organised to mark Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Action Week on 19-25 May
