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Haddon Hall Care home host free dementia friends session

From left Scrivens staff Abbie Kidd, Ruth Oldfield plus dog Daisy and Melanie Page

Local optician runs 85 miles for charity

Customers were able to buy Forget Me Not badges for a donation to the charity.

Over £1,000 raised for the Alzheimer's Society in Buxton

Figures from the NHS show 1,317 people aged 65 and older in High Peak were estimated to have dementia in March 2023. Of them, 761 (57.8%) had a formal diagnosis.

More than two in five suspected dementia cases lack a formal diagnosis

Dementia Action 2023 poster

Become a dementia friend at Morrisons in Buxton

Keith Horncastle, Robert Harrison and Leigh Griffiths during dementia action week 2021

Morrisons supporting dementia charity appeal

David Reed-Laing and son Josh Reed in London for the marathon last month.

New Mills father and son's London Marathon run raises thousands for charity

Keith Horncastle with next year's Memory Calendar and some of the early prototypes he and his late wife used to develop the idea

Buxton man's memory calendars helping people living with dementia

Well done, Jim Critchlow!

Buxton man raises over £8,000 for Alzheimer’s Society with major challenge

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Experts warn a blanket care home visiting ban 'could risk premature deaths'

The lockdown has left a quarter of adults thinking they have no real friends

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Campaign will rally experts on dementia

Derbyshire Volunteers big band hold charity ceilidh

Angie Waring with a list of all the local charities that have been helped by the Spa Town Ladies Darts and Dominoes League

Buxton charity champ raises £5k

Ben Brindley

Ben to run in memory of ex-Buxton teacher