• We’re looking for ten people to join us on Monday, 13 June to help us design policy, practice and product solutions that will help make our high streets more dementia-friendly.
• We want to hear from empathetic people with a diverse range of professional and personal experiences who will enjoy spending a day focusing on solutions, not problems.

While people with dementia report shopping as one of their favourite activities, the design of the high street sometimes makes it difficult. From remembering a PIN number to accidentally shoplifting and from being exposed to scams to navigating around a town centre, research evidence suggest that our high street isn’t dementia friendly enough.

As part of our Spending with dementia project, supported by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, we’ve been speaking to people with dementia and their carers about the problems they face when shopping (in-store/online) and managing their finances. We’ve also been presenting these problems to retailers, high street managers and other companies to gather their views.

The next step is for us to work to develop solutions to the problems we’ve found. And that’s where you come in. We’re bringing together a group of experts for an innovation forum where we’ll work through and develop solutions.

If you’d like to join, please get in touch using the button below with a couple of paragraphs about why you would like to be involved.