DID you know that it’s not only elderly people that can be affected by the cruel disease Alzheimer’s but some young and middle aged people too?
These Year 12 and Year 10 students learned a lot about dementia yesterday, June 4, when The Alzheimer’s Society in Newham came in to deliver a very informative workshop to them.
Miss Roddy went on to explain: “Students signed up to become friends of the society and they will be delivering awareness assemblies to all Year groups next academic year. They were shocked to hear that dementia can affect the young as well as the old and were given strategies for supporting someone with dementia.”
What caring, inclusive teenagers these teens are. We wish them well as as they prepare to spread the message to our students next year.
The more people are aware of the condition they will hopefully be more patient and understanding and that can’t be a bad thing in this fast-paced and at times uncaring world.
