Stockport Council and partners are encouraging Stockport Businesses to pledge to make their businesses more dementia aware, by signing up their employees to a dementia awareness training session over the coming year.
The pledge is part of ongoing work to make Stockport Dementia Friendly, including an evening of film and theatre about dementia at the Plaza Theatre in Stockport entitled ‘Doing Dementia Differently’. The aim is to get 1000 people to attend the event which is being held on Wednesday 13 May from 7:30pm.
Dementia affects over 4,000 people in Stockport. By equipping employees with knowledge and skills about dementia, businesses will help increase understanding; develop corporate social responsibility and ensure colleagues and customers can be supported as necessary.
The event celebrates the work of EDUCATE (Early Dementia Users Co-operative Aiming to Educate), who are a highly successful group of Stockport residents with dementia. Over the past 5 years, the group has helped to promote a better understanding of dementia across Stockport and beyond, contributing to dementia training, attending meetings and conferences.
Stockport Businesses, who make the pledge, will be acknowledged in the ‘Doing Dementia Differently Programme’, which will be distributed on the evening of 13 May.
For more information about pledging, contact maureen.hughes@stockport.gov.uk or for information about the event visit the What’s On calendar on the Council website.