DEMENTIA: Find out small ways to help

For most people, the clocks changing this Sunday provides a temporary inconvenience of an hour's less sleep.

By The Newsroom

Published 26th Mar 2016, 10:30 BST

However, for many of the 5,000 people with dementia in Northumberland it can affect their sleep routines and may lead to them waking at the wrong time or struggling to get to sleep.

Disrupted sleep is just one of the many challenges people with dementia and their carers face.

Perhaps your readers would consider joining the 1.4 million people who have become Dementia Friends?

They can then learn more about the condition and the small ways in which they can help?

To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk

Helen Williams,

Alzheimer’s Society Services Manager,

Northumberland

Dementia Northumberland