"The government wants to train a million people to become "dementia friends", as part of plans to raise awareness of the condition.Prime Minister David Cameron has said dementia is a national crisis and awareness of it is "shockingly low".Dominic Hughes reports." - 8 November 2012

Filmed in Oldham, it was interesting to see images of other day centres and a Life Story book. The carer - John Starkey talked really eloquently about his mum needing just that little extra time to do things and patience from others.

I wasn't fully sure of what the implications were of the article though..

My understanding is that there is to be government funded training of 1 million 'Dementia Friends' (* by 2015) is going to raise awareness of the condition.

Jeremy Hughes from the Alzheimer's Society talked about how they are training volunteers (yes, volunteers) to run Dementia Awareness courses for those interested in finding out more.

Perhaps carers of those with dementia would be running the courses - (would be useful to be just a volunteer too to not affect their carers allowance, although they would have to find alternative arrangement for care when they are training..)

Regardless of the practicalities of running the courses, I would be interested to know more about who would go to these courses and what would they really learn?