“More women live with dementia than men. The prevalence is higher for women than for men; women are more at risk of developing dementia and the symptoms they live with are more severe.

Women provide a substantial proportion of informal care to people with dementia, with around two-thirds of primary caregivers overall being women.”

Referenced from the Alzheimer’s Disease International Women and Dementia Report.

Join us at the upcoming Step Up, Speak Out! – Women & Dementia event, organised by Project We Forgot, as we look at dementia through a feminist lens and learn more about how it disproportionately affects female caregivers. The discussion will explore the difficulties women face in relation to dementia and how the usual demographic of caregivers (female, single and unmarried, daughters, daughter-in-laws) are affected.

Speakers
► Female Caregivers
► Shailey Hingorani, Head of Advocacy, Research, and Communications at AWARE
► Dr Mok Wan Ling Vanessa, Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Changi General
► Jeremy Khoo, Head of Communications at Alzheimer’s Disease Association (ADA) Singapore
► Melissa Chan, Founder, Project We Forgot

Event Details, Registration & Tickets here.

This event is organised by Project We Forgot in collaboration with AWARE Singapore. Hosted at Core Collective SG.