Mission & Values
Our Vision
We are people living with dementia transforming how the world views life with a neurocognitive disorder.
Our Mission
To develop and support a national corps of Dementia Minds™ groups—composed of persons living with dementia—who foster education and dialogue among individuals with neurocognitive disorders, families, care partners, healthcare providers, researchers, policymakers, and communities at large in order to empower more people to live well with dementia.
Our Programs
Our mission comes to life through four key program areas:
• Dementia Minds™ Groups
• Educational Events
• Creating Practical Resources
• Sharing our Lived Experience Expertise
Our Values
• Centering the voices of persons living with dementia
• Inclusion of persons with all types of dementia, at all ages and stages
• Compassionate listening
• Lifelong learning and personal growth
• Connecting with people where they are with their experience with dementia
• Respect, kindness, and compassion
• Inclusion of persons with all types of dementia, at all ages and stages
• Compassionate listening
• Lifelong learning and personal growth
• Connecting with people where they are with their experience with dementia
• Respect, kindness, and compassion
Our Strategies
• Connect and support persons living with dementia.
• Promote wellbeing.
• Advocate for inclusion of persons living with dementia in all aspects of private and public life.
• Create awareness of the diversity of experience in people affected by the many forms of dementia.
• Address stigma and societal misperceptions about what it looks like to live with dementia.
Our Commitment to Non-discrimination
National Council of Dementia Minds does not discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of race, national origin, color, sex, disability, religion, age, familial status, genetic information or other legally protected status. Sex-based discrimination includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics or pregnancy.
