Where to start
Many people who have someone in their life with dementia don't refer to themselves as carers. They are just doing what needs to be done for the person they love. We're here to help support you. The sons, daughters, partners, siblings, friends of those diagnosed. Whatever you're going through, we've created a space for you, filled with people that just get it.
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About Our Founder
Jack Vernon
Hi, Jack here. My mum was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer's in early 2024. She'd spent her working life caring for people with dementia. After her diagnosis, I looked for support — for me, for my dad, for our family — and couldn't find what I needed. So I built it. Dementia Life is for the sons, daughters, partners, siblings and friends who don't know where to turn after someone they love is diagnosed. Come and find us.
Dementia Life Articles
The Good Day Bad Day Cycle: Good Days and Bad Days With Dementia
There are four cycles we talk about at Dementia Life. The Diagnostic Cycle. The Exhaustion Cycle. The Grief Cycle. And this one — the one that, in some ways, is the most quietly cruel. The Good Day...
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The Dementia Grief Cycle: When Grief Doesn't Start or End Cleanly
We talk about cycles in dementia. The Diagnostic Cycle. The Exhaustion Cycle. The cycle of good days and bad ones. But the one that catches people most off guard — the one that keeps coming back — ...
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The Diagnostic Cycle: Getting a Dementia Diagnosis in the UK
Before a dementia diagnosis, there's a period that nobody prepares you for. It doesn't have a name. Nobody documents it in clinical terms. But if you've been through it, you know exactly what it fe...
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Join Our Carers Café
These aren't training sessions or therapy. They're conversations. People share what's working, what's not, the small wins and the bad weeks. You can come every week, drop in occasionally, sit quietly with your tea, camera on or camera off — whatever you need.
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Changing the Conversation
Family support is one side of what we do. The other side is shifting the conversation earlier — in classrooms, in offices, and in the evidence we're gathering to push for better policy.
Family Impact Study
Young Minds
