Alzheimer’s Society has worked with the BBC as part of their memories and dementia: starting the discussion season, which lasts from 24 to 28 March and includes various programs on the subject of dementia. To support this, the BBC has released special curations for BBC Iplayer and BBC sounds alongside the pop-up Iplayer ‘Memories’ channel.
About Memories and Dementia: Starting a conversation
The BBC memories and dementia season are designed to focus on their rich content archive, and especially the goal of curated collections is to help dementia living people by launching memories and starting discussions.
The reminder is the use of television, images or music to evoke memories for people living in dementia who can help talk to their loved ones and nurses. Using the media that captures life over a decade, or follows a familiar place, experience or interest, the reminder focuses on dementia on the “personality” of a living person.
Collaboration with the BBC
We are excited that we can work with the BBC in this exciting project that dementia experts share their views and people living with dementia talk about their experiences. We participate in programming throughout the week, and our experts have several media performances on national and regional BBC channels.
Dara de Burca, CEO of the Alzheimer’s Dementia support and partnerships, says: “Each of the three people born in the United Kingdom develops dementia in their lives and 1.4 million people are expected to live dementia by 2040.
Dementia is the biggest issue of health and social services in our time that affects millions of people in the United Kingdom – but it is important that people know that they are not alone and that support is available.
“What is great about the work that the BBC does this season is not only that it makes people talk about dementia, but it can trigger memory to a person living with dementia, and can offer family, friends and nurses the opportunity to contact their loved ones by providing a joint activity that can improve people’s social interaction.”