Ridley & Hall is lending its support to people affected by dementia, as part of this year’s Dementia Awareness Week, May 17 to 23.

Participants are encouraged to “Do Something New” to mark Dementia Awareness Week. Jill Waddington, head of Ridley & Hall’s Wills & Probate department, said, “We wanted to do something new that would help our clients who live with dementia. So we decided to install a range of dementia-friendly signs throughout the building, to make the office simpler for clients to navigate. The signs, situated at key decision points, are easy-to-read, non-reflective, and fitted at eye level. Many of them include a picture too.”

Partner, Sue Cash, oversees the signs being put up

Dementia Awareness Week is an annual event run by the Alzheimer’s Society to communicate the message that life doesn’t end when dementia begins. Dementia affects around 800,000 people nationwide, and numbers are increasing year on year.

Ridley & Hall has an expert Private Client team who can offer specialist legal advice to people living with dementia.

Ridley & Hall also have a highly specialised Community Care team who can offer specialist legal advice to people caring for someone with dementia, in the event of a dispute arising.

Ridley & Hall are members of the Dementia Action Alliance, and more than twenty staff members have had Dementia Friends training.