Dementia-Friendly Canada
By the end of the decade, almost one million Canadians will live with dementia. The impact of dementia is and will continue to be felt across all borders, sectors and cultures. We must act and build a dementia-friendly Canada now.
- What is Dementia-Friendly Canada?
- The 2023 Dementia-Friendly Communites Awards
- What are the goals of Dementia-Friendly Canada?
- Dementia-Friendly Communities initiatives
- Dementia-Friendly resources
- Additional resources
- Thank you to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Dementia-Friendly Communities initiatives
- British Columbia (English only)
- Saskatchewan (English only)
- Manitoba (English only)
- Ontario
Dementia-Friendly resources
Online education
Building Dementia-Friendly Communities online education for: Recreation and Library, Restaurant and Retail, and Public Transportation.
The course will provide a foundational knowledge of dementia, and outline the considerations that organizations can include in their social and physical environments in order to better support and include people living with dementia.
Tip sheets
Building Dementia-Friendly Communities tip sheets:
Here are some things you can do in your workplace to build on your dementia-friendly communication skills while keeping everyone safe.
Videos
Many of us will interact with someone living with dementia in our communities. This may be in our workplace, or as we are completing our day-to-day activities. By learning a little more about dementia, we can ensure that people living with dementia and their care partners feel valued, included and supported. The following PSAs demonstrate common scenarios and simple actions we can take to create a dementia-friendly Canada.
Ways you can be dementia friendly: reducing distractions
Ways you can be dementia friendly: ensuring participation
Ways you can be dementia friendly: providing assistance
Ways you can be dementia friendly: responding compassionately
What is a dementia-friendly community?
March 21, 2022. YouTube. Watch this short animated video about the importance of building dementia-friendly communities and the actions you can take to ensure people living with dementia feel supported and included.
Webinars
Dementia-Friendly Canada: Building dementia-friendly communities
March 9, 2022. Vimeo. This presentation provides an introduction to our course Building dementia-friendly communities. The course is designed for professionals working in the following three sector groups: recreation and library, restaurant and retail, and public transportation sectors and provides a foundational knowledge of dementia, and outline the considerations that organizations can include in their social and physical environments in order to better support and include people living with dementia.
Dementia-Friendly Canada: Creating inclusive and supportive communities
March 31, 2021. Vimeo. This webinar provides more background on the Dementia-Friendly Canada project, detailing the work being done to create tools, education and programing that will allow for the development of dementia-friendly communities across the country.
Additional resources
- What is dementia? (PDF)
- Charter of Rights for People Living with Dementia
- Meaningful Engagement of People with Dementia: A Resource Guide
- Person-centred language guidelines
- 2017 Awareness Survey: Executive Summary (PDF)
- Dementia-Friendly Canada: Focus Group Report (PDF)
- Public Health Agency of Canada: A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Achieve: 2020 Annual Report (PDF)
- Canadian Dementia Learning and Resource Network (CD-LRN)
- Towards a dementia-inclusive society: WHO toolkit for dementia-friendly initiatives (DFIs)
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