25. Dementia Support Stuttgart gGmbH, Germany

Where:  

Stuttgart, Germany

Who is involved:

Core funding was secured for the organisation via the Eric and Griselotte Gradman Foundation in 2002.

Nature of activity:

Dementia Support does practical research, project development, events, publications, symposia with the guiding principles of inclusion, self-determination and quality of life for people with dementia. It is committed to the genuine involvement and participation of people with dementia in its work to make communities more dementia-friendly, inclusive of people with dementia, and “overcome the purely medical idea of dementia as a deficit”.

Website:

http://www.demenz-support.de/home