Around 1.5 million people in Germany suffer from dementia today. Every year, 300,000 people become ill, which means that the total number of people with dementia increases by around 40,000 each year (difference between new cases and deaths). In the future, more and more people with dementia will live in families, neighborhoods and neighborhoods. The disease is often taboo: the sick and their relatives feel isolated, and the help and support they need is not available. For this reason, the federal government created the “Alliance for People with Dementia” as one of the fields of action of the demographic strategy.
According to the Co-Chairs Heike von Lützau-Hohlbein the agenda is shaped by the concept of inclusion. “Self-determination and participation of people with dementia are in the foreground of the agreed measures. Therefore, the German Alzheimer Society, as the representative of people with dementia and their relatives, is an important design partner. The concerns of people with dementia could be included in a cooperative and participatory process.”
To keep them involved, the results will also be made available in easy-to-understand language. The implementation of the agenda takes place with different sponsorship and responsibility in the following years. A first progress report is planned for spring 2016.
The design partners of the Alliance for People with Dementia are:
- Action Dementia eV
- Action mentally ill eV
- Conference of Labor and Social Affairs Ministers
- Federal Working Group of Free Welfare eV
- German Medical Association
- Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services eV
- German Alzheimer Society eV
- German Society for Gerontological Psychiatry and Psychotherapy eV
- German Hospital Society registered association
- German district association
- German Nursing Council eV
- German City Day
- German Association of Towns and Municipalities
- German Association for Public and Private Welfare eV
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases eV
- Health Ministers Conference
- National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds
- National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
- Board of Trustees for German Elderly Aid
- Conference of Ministers of Education
- Association of Private Health Insurance eV
- Association of German Elderly and Disabled Aid eV
- Federal Ministry of Family Affairs
- Federal Ministry of Health
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
- Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
- Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- Federal Chancellery