Absolutely!  

You can join as Dementia Friends if you are willing to care and support people living with dementia and their caregivers. After you have understand more about dementia, share it with the people around you and raise their awareness of dementia. These can enable early diagnosis and treatment. You are also encouraged to take actions to care for your senior relatives and elderly in the community, and to encourage friends to be Dementia Friends.

All persons of any age, gender and educational background are welcome to join Dementia Friends as individual or as group.

Join as a group: if you are a legitimate corporation, school, organization or group delivering services in HK, you can join Dementia Friends as a group.

The Dementia Friends Hong Kong movement is a self-initiated movement rather than a fund-raising activity, no donation or fee is required.

Cultural adaption to meet local needs is crucial for enabling dementia-friendly environment in Hong Kong and motivating more people from different industries and background to participate. Your participation and influence can surely make a difference!

Hong Kong Alzheimer’s Disease Association offers Early Detection Services for suspected cases. Please contact us at 2338 1120 or visit our website http://www.hkada.org.hk for more details.

You may also consult medical professionals, for medical advice.

When you register as a Dementia Friend, you have to provide your personal information including name, contact number, email address and postal address. These information allow us to send you the updated information related to the Dementia Friends HK and run duplicate check on registration. Also, Dementia Friendly booklet and badge of Dementia Friends will be sent to you by post if your postal address is provided.

Both “Dementia Friends” and “Dementia Friends Ambassador” are people who are willing to care and support people living with dementia and their families, they are encouraged to invite more people to join as “Dementia Friends”. The most significant difference is that “Dementia Friends Ambassador” can organize or assist in holding a Dementia Friends Information Session for their families, friends, colleagues, staff, classmates or members.

If you cannot log in to your account, please click on the “Forgot Password?” button on the sign in page and submit your registered email address. You will then receive a new temporary password via email.  Follow the instructions given in the email.  If you do not receive this, please check your “Spam” folder, as it may be in there.

If you still cannot log in after all these, please contact us at 2338 1120 or email to dementiafriends@hkada.org.hk for assistance.

If you have submitted your personal name and full address when register online, we shall send the Dementia Friendly booklet and badge may in 2 weeks by post. If you do not receive them 3 weeks after registration, please call us at 2338 1120. (Mailing service is only available to address in Hong Kong.)

If you join Dementia Friends in Dementia Friends Information Session, you will receive the booklet and badge on site after registration.

Please call us at 2338 1120 or email to dementiafriends@hkada.org.hk for assistance.

You can make the changes of your registered information on membership page after Login.

We cordially invite you to be Dementia Friends if you are long-staying in Hong Kong. As Dementia Friends is a global movement and there are many counties/cities around the world joining the movement, please see if the country/city you reside is one of them.

The Dementia Friends Hong Kong Movement aims to increase people’s understanding of dementia and to reduce stigmatization of people living with dementia.  You may share knowledge of dementia with people around you to raise their awareness of early diagnosis and treatment.  You may not have to quit even though you have no chance to turn your concern into action right now.  But if you have decided to quit, please email to dementiafriends@hkada.org.hk or call us at 2338 1120.