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A year of Progress and Achievement – SDWG report 2008/9 (pdf, 12 pages).

The SDWG have been busier than ever through 2008 – 2009. From meeting the First Minister to work in schools the SDWG have been raising awareness about dementia and campaigning for the rights of people with dementia across Scotland, Europe and [...]

Thursday 19 November 2009
The Quality Hotel, Perth (opposite Perth Railway Station – map)

At our Scottish Dementia Working Group AGM we elect a new committee for the coming year, review the successes of last year and present our Annual Report.
Agenda – AGM 2009 (Microsoft Word document – 49kb)
Guest speakers
Penny Redwood, who until recently worked with the [...]

Dementia Rights – Charter of Rights for People with Dementia and their Carers in Scotland
The Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Alzheimer’s disease has launched a charter of ‘dementia rights’.
Charter of Rights for people with Dementia and their Carers in Scotland – Read the Charter and be inspiredSupport the Charter – Register your [...]

Help shape a Charter of Rights and a Dementia Manifesto
You are invited to help us shape a Charter of Rights for People with Dementia and their Carers in Scotland and develop our mid-term election Dementia Manifesto .
You can do this by coming to a ‘roadshow’ event or completing a questionnaire.
Visit Words into Action on [...]

Draft Charter of rights for people with dementia and their carers – A consultation document
Alzheimer Scotland has produced a draft Charter of Rights for consultation. We need people with dementia, their families and friends to be at the heart of developing the Charter of Rights. Your views and experiences are vital.
We also invite the views [...]

Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP, today praised the work of the Scottish Dementia Working Group when he met with them to discuss the ways in which they had been supported by Comic Relief.

Agnes Houston, Pat McGonigal, James McKillop and Edward McLaughlin, along with National Co-ordinator Martin Sewell and Chief Executive of Alzheimer Scotland Henry [...]

Are you creative or artistic in any way? Would you like to exhibit your work?
Alzheimer Scotland are encouraging artistic and creative people with dementia to exhibit their work at Alzheimer Scotland’s National Office in Edinburgh this June. So if you paint, draw, embroider, photograph, sculpt, model or are creative in any other way please consider putting your new [...]

Perth – Thursday 20th November
Members and supporters from across Scotland travelled to Perth last Thursday for SDWG’s 5th AGM. James McKillop chaired an interesting and varied meeting with 1 speaker, 2 launch presentations, a constitutional amendment, election of increased Committee and the raffle.

Launch of ‘Talking about Dementia’ at SDWG AGM

We were also joined by Chris [...]

James with his award for exceptional service

After 5 years of chairing the Scottish Dementia Working Group James announced at the AGM that for health reasons he would not stand for re-election to the Committee. James was the driving voice behind the idea that there should be a group for people with the diagnosis to [...]

There are now 18 Committee members instead of 15 and 4 co-opted members instead of 3. This is good news as it means that the 18 people who wanted to be Committee Members were automatically elected.
Committee members elected at the Scottish Dementia Working Group 5th AGM:

Clark Alexander
Sadie Bowie
Ross Campbell
Beatrice Darnell
William Dawson
Alex Gerrard
Allan Gallagher
Eric Hogg
Lynda [...]