Dementia Support Line
Dementia: Behind Closed Doors
Watch our campaign film showing how the realities of dementia are being kept behind closed doors.
What is the film about?
Featuring people with real lived experience of dementia, our campaign film highlights that even though dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, all too often the realities of the condition remain hidden behind closed doors.
By launching the campaign film during the broadcast of Anna Richardson: Love, Loss and Dementia - a groundbreaking documentary which also confronts the devastating truth of the disease - we show that stories matter.
What can I do after watching the film?
In the campaign film we ask you, society, to share your story, so together we can create an unignorable case for urgent action and put a stop to the injustice faced by thousands of people.
To make sure we keep talking about dementia, on Thursday 3 October in London, and Saturday 5 October in Manchester, we will be hosting a behind closed doors interactive exhibition to show the public the hidden truth of dementia.
#DementiaBehindClosedDoors
Stories matter
Your voice and experience can help us shed light on the hidden realities of dementia too. Together we can bring dementia out from behind closed doors and make it the political priority it deserves to be.
Our dementia storytellers
Sile and Stefan
Sile from Northern Ireland shares the reality of her husband Stefan's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia at just 39.
Helen and Sue
Helen moved back to South Wales to become a full-time carer for her mum, Sue, who has vascular dementia.
John and Nellie
Husband and wife, John and Nellie, find unity in their Bristol community following Nellie's Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.
Jane and Graham
Jane from Milton Keynes, who cares for her husband, Graham, shares their experience after a difficult diagnosis journey.
