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Alzheimer Scotland

Registered charity number SC022315

On JustGiving since Nov 2002

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About Alzheimer Scotland

Alzheimer Scotland helps people with dementia, their carers and families. Its members include carers, relatives, people with dementia, professionals, groups and organisations.

The charity gives equal importance to providing services and campaigning and work nationally and locally to raise awareness of dementia and to influence local and national government.

Alzheimer Scotland runs a national 24 hour freephone Dementia Helpline and provide local services through 47 projects around Scotland and also has 14 volunteer-run branches which campaign and provide services locally.

The charity employs approximately 600 full and part-time staff and have about 700 volunteers.

Achievements

  • The charity provides the only Freephone 24 hour dementia Helpline anywhere in the UK and its Dementia Helpline Basic Training Course has been adopted internationally in the European Alzheimer Helplines Manual.
  • Its carer education programme is the only nationally designed and delivered service of its kind in Europe and it is increasingly receiving requests from sister dementia organisations (most recently from Hungary and Romania) to help them develop their own models of carer education
  • The charity is pioneering innovative work in Glasgow, listening to people with dementia and enabling them to feed into service planning
  • After 14 years of campaigning the charity saw the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act passed by the Scottish Parliament recently. This is legislation that gives new rights and legal protection to people with dementia.

Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland 149069. Registered Office: 22 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7RN. It is recognised as a charity by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, no. SC022315.

 




Our history

  • Alzheimer Scotland was formed in 1994 from the merger of Alzheimer's Scotland and Scottish Action on Dementia
  • Alzheimer's Scotland formed in 1988 when it split off from the Alzheimer's Disease Society.

    • The first Scottish branch of the Alzheimer's Disease Society began in Edinburgh in 1980, formed by carers & professionals who felt a need for something to be done to help people caring for someone with dementia. Alzheimer's Scotland's principal focus was providing services for people with dementia and their carers.

  • Scottish Action on Dementia (SAD) began in 1985 under the auspices of Age Concern Scotland and became an independent charity in 1987 with a membership of 70 voluntary, professional and statutory organisations. SAD's principal focus was campaigning to improve public policies for people with dementia and their carers.