Enhancing the health & wellbeing of people with dementia through digital

07/07/2020 First published July 2020

This report explores how basic digital skills and community-based support can improve the health and wellbeing of people with dementia and their carers or families.

Enhancing the health & wellbeing of people with dementia through digital

At Good Things Foundation, we believe everyone should be able to benefit from digital – especially people who are most isolated and most excluded. That includes many of the 850,000 or so people in the UK with dementia and their families and carers.

This focussed, short-term piece of research was carried out in 2020 to track the social and digital barriers facing people with dementia and their carers, understand how the UK online centres network is already helping to overcome these barriers, and discover what more can be done at a local and national level.

Download the full report to find out more, and use our guide to supporting people with dementia to improve their health & wellbeing through digital.