Dementia Action Week
Complete the symptoms checklist
If you're worried about yourself or someone close to you, complete our symptoms checklist and show it to a GP or health professional. You can fill in the checklist online or print it out and complete it offline.
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What is Dementia Action Week?
Dementia Action Week (15-21 May) is an awareness raising campaign. Each year, Alzheimer's Society works with individuals and organisations across the UK to encourage people to act on dementia. This year's theme is dementia diagnosis.
We're encouraging those who are worried about dementia to use our Royal College of GP’s accredited symptoms checklist. We're also offering practical advice on what to expect during and after the diagnosis process.
We want to encourage those who might be living with undiagnosed dementia to:
For Dementia Action Week updates follow Alzheimer's Society:
With a sustained drop in dementia diagnosis rates, we undertook research to understand the key barriers to and benefits from getting a diagnosis.
As well as misconceptions around memory loss being a normal part of ageing, we found being in denial and specialist referral times are the biggest barriers to getting people to seek a diagnosis.
How to get a dementia diagnosis
Research shows that the biggest barrier stopping people seeking a diagnosis was thinking memory loss is a normal sign of ageing.
We found 9 in 10 people living with dementia said getting a diagnosis had befitted them, with on average two to three recognisable benefits.
Of those we spoke to who waited to get a diagnosis for two or more years, three in five wished they had got that diagnosis sooner.
Getting a timely diagnosis means you can:
Benefits of getting dementia diagnosed