Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families
Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families through a community-based resource centre offering adult learning and social engagement along with preventative health and therapy when they need it, day or night.
About the project
Dementia Compass is a social venture that has worked for the past decade providing resources to support people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families.
Dementia Compass are proposing developing a community-based resource centre. This is not a ‘medical’ facility. It is more like a members’ gym or a hotel, where PLWCI and their families can access adult learning and social engagement along with preventative health and therapy when they need it, day or night. And, like a gym, it will be paid for by a monthly subscription that is far lower than the costs of part-time and full-time care (at present, full-time residential care costs around £44,000 each year).
Part of this project will be working with people living with cognitive issues, their families, health professionals, researchers and leaders in allied fields.