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We’re working to make Greater Manchester the best place to live for everyone affected by dementia.

About Us

Dementia United is Greater Manchester Integrated Care’s programme for dementia.

In Greater Manchester we are working to bring the NHS, public services, and the wider community together to deliver integrated, person-centred care and support that enables people to live a good life. Our Greater Manchester programme is called `Dementia United’ because partners are united in our longstanding vision to improve the quality and experience of care for everyone affected by dementia, and to deliver this vision across the whole of the region.

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Liz and Mike (members of DCERG) smiling and sitting on a sofa in front of a large window. You can see the garden behind them
Photo showing Back row L to R: Dr Lim Jun Pei, Consultant, Geriatric Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Ng Wan Ring, Geriatric Medicine Advanced Practice Nurse, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Siti Norwani Binte Mohamed Hussain, Senior Occupational Therapist, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; John O’Doherty, Living with Dementia Group, Dementia United; Jayne Etches, Interim Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team Service Lead, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Liz Brookes, Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group, Dementia United: Professor Emma Vardy, Consultant Geriatrician; Dr Claire Lake, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, NHS Greater Manchester; Fiona Black, Project Support Officer, Dementia United. Front row L to R: Joey Yeo Jiayang, Geriatric Nurse Clinician, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Marion Coleman, Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group; Ruth Turner, Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group, Dementia United; Pat O’Doherty, Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group; Helen Pratt, Senior Project Manager, Dementia United; Ann Booth, Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group, Dementia United.

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Dementia United’s World Delirium Awareness Day 2025 in-person health and care staff event was a huge success. | 17.04.25

Over 70 people attended the event from across a wide variety of health and care settings including voluntary sector, care homes, hospices, community teams, primary care as well as hospitals and mental health providers.

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What we do

Our work touches every aspect of living with dementia, in every part of Greater Manchester

We have made dementia a priority through working in partnership with people affected by dementia, across all ten boroughs in Greater Manchester. We work on projects which deliver improvements to the quality and experience of care, support and wellbeing

Find out more about the work we’re doing, and how you can get involved.

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Resources

Guides, strategies and research to help manage dementia. For informal carers, NHS workers and people living with dementia themselves.

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Get Involved

We aim to engage lived experience in all aspects of the programme

Engagement can be through existing groups and networks or directly as part of specific pieces of work. ​ Our governance structure includes lived experience contributing the vital perspectives which comes from real lived experience, both from people living with dementia and their carers. ​

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A cartoon showing a group of adults and children smiling and waving their hands above their head. The word United is above them. This is a cartoon by Tony Husband