DAA is where people come together to connect, form friendships, exchange ideas, learn, and create a better community in which to live with dementia.

Enhancing Lives

Most doctors believe there are no treatments for dementia. There actually are many things you can do.

Connecting People

Relationships are vital to human well-being. Connecting with others can boost your health.

Increasing Understanding

Imagine living with a condition that is highly stigmatized and mostly misunderstood even by doctors.

Dementia Does Not Define A Person

Dementia is a wideiy misunderstood condition, even by physicians. Society’s stigmatized perception about living with dementia has profound negative effects on them. Rather than being understood as people with many aspects to their lives who have some changing abilities needing accommodations, they become reduced to their diagnosis. DAA provides help, hope and education about living with dementia.

Imagine living with a condition that is highly stigmatized and mostly misunderstood even by doctors.

Hear Our Voices

DAA is where people come together to connect, form friendships, exchange ideas, learn, and create a better community in which to live with dementia.

Enhancing Lives

Connecting People

Increasing Understanding

Dementia Does Not Define A Person

Imagine living with a condition that is highly stigmatized and mostly misunderstood even by doctors.

Pathways to Well-Being with Dementia

Living Beyond Dementia

Why Knowing a Dementia Diagnosis is Important

Living Well With Dementia

Paulan’s Story

Calling All Voices: Stories from Black Community Members

Calling All Voices: Stories from LGBTQ+ Community Members

Hear Our Voices

Living with Dementia

Words Matter

Dementia Care

Dementia Priorities Identified from a National Survey