About our work

At Age Scotland we focus on helping people live well with dementia by raising awareness, building understanding and amplifying voices with lived experience.

We offer training for unpaid carers, professionals and organisations, and support a national network of Dementia Friendly Communities to foster inclusion and connection. We also engage with people with lived experience to understand what needs to change, then work collaboratively to do what we can to make those changes real. Our work spans many areas but connecting with people living with or affected by dementia at a community level lies at the heart of everything we do. 

Our aims

• Discuss and debate existing evidence and learning, drawing out best practice and influencing policy makers so that it is embedded in policy and implemented.
• Identify gaps in policy, practice and research and carry out work to address these gaps, seeking funding where necessary.
• Highlight seemingly insurmountable challenges in policy and practice and propose solutions to these challenges.
• Work alongside people with lived experience of dementia to influence policy makers, leaders and practitioners in Scotland to ensure policy meets the needs of people with dementia, their families and unpaid carers
• Operate from the grassroots up, with influencing at a local level considered as important as influencing at a national level.