Living Well with Dementia – Website Resources

YouQuest improves quality of life for people with young-onset dementia and their care partners. YouQuest is a registered charity addressing a void for this underserved community in Canada.

The Forward with Dementia website was created to challenge negative stereotypes about dementia. It provides guidance after a diagnosis of dementia, and enables people with dementia and their carers to lead fulfilling lives with dementia. Find up-to-date information from clinicians and researchers, practical suggestions and stories from people living with dementia and carers, and tools to help come to terms and live positively with dementia.

The Dementia Enabling Environment Virtual Information Centre can help develop an enabling environment for a person living with dementia, making a significant difference to their independence, quality of life and wellbeing. ​This website provides practical tips, guides and resources to help make the places where we live more dementia enabling.

The Driving and Dementia Roadma is a free, online, and Canadian resource created to help older adults living with dementia, their family, friends, and healthcare teams, and provide them with information around the decision to stop driving.

AARP is dedicated to helping empower over the age of 50 to choose how they live their life and how they can improve their quality of life as they age.

The work of ACT is about equipping communities to support people who are touched by Alzheimer’s disease. They offer information, resources and in-person support.

Dementia Alliance International is an independent self-advocacy organization of people with dementia. They provide a unified voice of strength, advocacy and support for our rights, individual autonomy and improved quality of life.

The Dementia-Friendly Airports Working Group (DFAWG) is an international collaboration of professionals, academics, and volunteers in aging and dementia services and support systems, and individuals who are living with dementia. They promote the definition and implementation of dementia-friendly protocols in U.S. airports and airlines and the air travel regulations world-wide.

Dementia Map is a free directory to the resources needed by those diagnosed with a form of dementia, family members, and professionals providing care or services.

This page contains the different dementia resources and manuals from the       Department of Human Services Division Aging services.

The Dementia Society of America provides a variety of dementia awareness materials and resources for individuals and organizations across America, including a set of handy online directories to help families find valuable support. Free resources.

The website is full of articles and information that are based on research, and the experiences of people with dementia and their care partners. This website also has linked to pre-existing resources aiming to gather lots of useful and inspiring information in one place.

A website or haven full of information, services for an individual’s journey with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. Free access to their resources.

A blog by a person with dementia. This blog is primarily focus on dementia symptoms, strategies, communication and relationship from a 1^st-person perspective. A documentation progress of the person’s symptoms and adaptive strategies used by the person and friends. Also, discuss the role that spirituality plays in the person’s daily life.

This foundation sponsors and supports community engagement programs and evens for People Living with Dementia and their loved ones, based on I’m Still Here principles of non-pharmacological treatment. The Foundation fosters use of the visual arts and cultural events throughout communities and in care facilities to support persons living with dementia to remain engaged and fulfilled and to help caregivers maintain meaningful relationships. The Foundation is well known for its influential Artists for Alzheimer’s (ARTZ) programs which have served thousands of Persons Living With Dementia.

DFA is a national network of communities, organizations and individuals seeking to ensure that communities across the U.S. are equipped to support people living with dementia and their caregivers. Dementia friendly communities foster the ability of people living with dementia to remain in community and engage and thrive in day to day living.

Home Transitions Solution Group provides home assessment, remote home care and medical data integration and other services.

Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of people living with dementia, carers/care partners, family and community members, dementia activists and allies, health professionals, advocates, artists, academics, policymakers, and others. They creatively challenge the biomedical and institutional approaches to dementia policy and practice, and the fear, stigma and hopelessness they create.