What we do
Local Dementia support
Bromley Dementia Friendly Community raises awareness of the local dementia support available and helps businesses and the community to understand what it means to be dementia friendly.
We run Dementia Friends Awareness sessions, hold monthly meetings for the local dementia community and encourage local business and organisations who are dementia friendly to partner with us.
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Our vision
We strive for a Bromley where people with dementia can live well, with support, understanding and kindness, in a dementia friendly environment.
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Our mission
It’s our mission to improve the quality of life for people in Bromley with dementia and their carers. We do this by:
- Communicating what support is available in Bromley for those with dementia
- Raising awareness across the local community of how small changes can make a big difference to those living with dementia.
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Our values
We believe that integrity, understanding, diversity and inclusion are the core values needed to grow Bromley into a dementia friendly community.
What we do
Several people within our team are Dementia Friends Ambassadors who can deliver Dementia Friends Awareness Sessions.
A Dementia Friends Ambassador is an Alzheimer’s Society volunteer, who has been trained to deliver awareness sessions and contribute to changing attitudes about dementia.
Our Ambassadors deliver awareness sessions to schools, businesses and community groups across the Bromley borough. This includes hospitals, GP surgeries, shops, leisure centres, cinemas, opticians.
If you would like to arrange a Dementia Friends Session for your school, business or community group, please see our Partners page or contact us.
We hold free monthly meetings for businesses and local groups to find out about the latest dementia news and to become part of our dementia friendly community.
Our meetings are usually on the first Tuesday of each month between 8am and 10am at Thackray Williams in Bromley.
To find out more or to come to one of our breakfast meetings, please contact us.
Local businesses and organisations who are committed to being dementia friendly can become a partner and be listed in our online directory.
Many of our partners run regular dementia friendly events, often in collaboration with other partners.
Find out more about becoming a partner.
This is an annual Dementia Friend award, named after Cora Phillips, co-founder of Alzheimer’s Society.
Who was Cora Phillips?
Cora Phillips was a Bromley resident whose husband, a local GP, developed young onset dementia. In 1979, she contacted Professor Davison to set up a charity, after hearing his radio broadcast on his research into Alzheimer’s disease. He put her in touch with Professor Gordon Wilcock, who had the same idea.
Meanwhile, Cora saw an interview of another carer, Morella Fisher, in The Observer. She invited her to join the steering committee of the new charity, as they had both experienced a lack of understanding about dementia and nowhere to turn to for support.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Society (now Alzheimer’s Society) gained charitable status in December 1979 and Cora herself was awarded an MBE in 1991.
While we do not carry out research, we encourage you to get involved if you would like to. There are a number of ways you can do this.
To participate in research, visit Join Dementia Research to register your interest.
To get involved in decision making about research, visit the Alzheimer’s Society website or the National Institute for Health and Care Research website.
You can also see requests for research participants, research decision making and news about research findings in our news pages.
See latest research requests and news.