Dementia Specialist Finalist Home Care Awards - PillarCare Agency

Recipient: PillarCare Agency

Date: Monday 03 Jan 2022

At PillarCare we have been working with people living with dementia, for over 20 years. During the course of this time, we have met and worked with many individuals, family members, close friends, and loved ones whose lives’ have been touched and affected by dementia. Dementia is a journey; a diagnosis doesn’t mean life overnight will be different. No two people share exactly the same journey but hearing experiences of what life can be like from people living with dementia can be a huge help and these experiences form the basis of our work with dementia care.
We all know that dementia changes lives. But a dementia diagnosis is not the end of the life, From our experience of working with dementia we know that the condition shapes life very differently from what may have been expected but life can continued to be lived and loved. As time moves forward, there will be more changes to society’s perception of dementia as the projected rate of diagnoses increases. It is from learning from those living with dementia now, listening to their journeys and sharing experienced that we can approach this with positivity and readiness.
For every person with a dementia diagnosis, there are also loved ones and family members whose lives will also be changed as a result of this condition and our dementia work tends to expand beyond the individual, to their family/loved ones and the community they live in.