Dementia Friendly Haringey aims to make Haringey a place where people with dementia are understood, respected and supported. Dementia-Friendly Haringey brings together people from across the council, health services, voluntary and community sector as well as local businesses and residents committed to making the borough a friendly and accessible place for people living with dementia and their carers.
Dementia-Friendly Haringey's priorities are to create a place where people with dementia and their carers will:
- be respected and experience a greater level of dementia awareness in the community
- have greater access to health and social care support services
- have access to a range of local social activities
Sign up to Dementia Friendly Haringey
If you are a service or organisation interested in signing up to Dementia Friendly Haringey please contact DementiaFriendly@haringey.gov.uk.
A Dementia Friendly Haringey member works towards taking actions to improve their service and workplace to become more accessible for people with dementia. We ask you to commit to a minimum of 2 actions. This could be as simple as completing a dementia-friendly environmental checklist of your workplace or staff attending a dementia awareness session.
Next steps
If you would like to make your service, group or organisation more dementia friendly, please take a look at the dementia-friendly businesses guide on the Alzheimer's Society website. The guide contains information about how dementia affects people’s experience of interacting with different organisations. It also provides tips, guidance and signposting to additional best practice resources and tools to help businesses become more dementia friendly. Some examples of dementia friendly include:
- completing a dementia-friendly environment audit, to understand what small changes can be made to your workplace to make it more accessible
- becoming a Dementia Friend and help more people to understand dementia, reducing the stigma surrounding the condition and ensuring awareness of dementia is available to everyone. To find out more, please visit the Dementia Friends website
Local groups and activities
We have also developed leaflets listing local groups and activities for people with dementia and carers of people with dementia.
Dementia
Find out more about dementia, help and support services, community services and useful contacts.
See the Haringey dementia page for more information.
The Haynes Centre Dementia Hub
The Haynes Centre is a specialist dementia hub that provides different levels of support to adults with a dementia diagnosis.
See the Haynes Dementia Hub page for more information.
Dementia Friendly Haringey events
We hold regular Dementia Friendly Haringey events to bring together services, groups, organisations and local residents.
The events showcase local dementia services and activities in Haringey, and provide an opportunity to meet local organisations and learn about the services that they provide that aim at a more dementia-friendly community.
Dementia Wellbeing Day
- Wednesday 21 May 2025, 10.30am to 3.30pm
- at Ermine Road Day Centre, 2 Ermine Road, N15 6DB
Join us for a Dementia Wellbeing Day and enjoy:
- activities
- talks
- a disco
- a barbeque
- and much more!
Throughout the day a programme of dementia friendly sessions will be on offer to enjoy. Activities include:
- a sporting memories reminiscence session
- art workshop
- chair based exercise
- cake decorating
There will also be a series of informative talks, and stalls from a number of different North Central London organisations and services.
A barbeque lunch will be available to purchase for £10. Pre-booking lunch is advised as availability will be limited on the day. Contact us to pre-book.
For more information please call: 020 8489 5925 or email: DementiaFriendly@haringey.gov.uk
