An awareness campaign to highlight stories of living with dementia.
Through compelling videos, beautiful posters, and imagery, Faces of Dementia has been crafted around the stories of people living with dementia and their individual messages that they are so much MORE than their diagnosis.
The Faces of Dementia Gallery
You can still visit the Faces of Dementia Gallery in Hamilton at Sackville Hill Seniors Centre and in Haldimand County at Minga Café. The gallery features images and stories of people living with dementia and runs until November 15th!
Meet the Faces of Dementia
Compelling Stories
Our Faces of Dementia campaign participants share how being diagnosed and living with dementia has impacted their lives. View their stories.
View Ruby’s Story
View Phyllis’ Story
View Vera’s Story
View Andrea’s Story
View Debbie’s Story
View Doug’s Story
View Terry’s Story
Empowering Dementia-Friendly Communities
The Empowering Dementia-Friendly Communities, Haldimand, Hamilton is a four-year communities-based project (2020-2023) funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Our Goal is to develop, implement and evaluate promising practices, programs and initiatives that improve quality of life for people living with dementia in Hamilton and Haldimand County.
The Empowering Dementia Friendly Communities Project looks to the experience, expertise and leadership of people who live with dementia to learn how we can collectively create more inclusive, dementia-friendly communities.
People Living With Dementia
We welcome people living with dementia to get involved in our local projects! Click to learn more about our Hamilton and Haldimand groups or contact Shelagh to learn more about getting involved.
Care Partners, Family & Friends
Those closest to people living with dementia are essential to building dementia-friendly communities! Download our resource below to start your dementia-friendly journey!
We offer a free 1-hour training session online or in-person. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate and be equipped with tools to improve life for people living with dementia. To register for a workshop, click below or to organize a workshop for your family/friend group, contact Wendy.
Care Partners, Family & Friends
Those closest to people living with dementia are essential to building dementia-friendly communities! Download our resource below to start your dementia-friendly journey!
We offer a free 1-hour training session online or in-person. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate and be equipped with tools to improve life for people living with dementia. To register for a workshop, click below or to organize a workshop for your family/friend group, contact Wendy.
Businesses & Organizations
From businesses to faith communities to service clubs, we all play an integral role in building dementia-friendly communities! Download our resource below to start your dementia-friendly journey!
We offer a free 1-hour training session online or in-person. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate and be equipped with tools to improve your services and environments for people living with dementia. To register for a workshop, click below or to organize a workshop for your group/team, contact Wendy.
In Case You Missed It!
Did you miss our public launch event for the Faces of Dementia campaign? No worries!
You can view a recording of our virtual event here:
Campaign Toolkit
We want to share the Faces of Dementia with everyone! Click below to download our campaign toolkit, including printable posters, social media graphics and a media release to help share the campaign.
Looking for something we don’t have? Please email shelagh@hamiltoncoa.com with your request.
We want to hear from you!
We want your feedback! Tell us what you think of the Faces of Dementia campaign, and how you’re using it in your own community!
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