Dementia Voices

DEEP engages and empowers people living with dementia to influence attitudes, services and policies that affect their lives.

DEEP stands for the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project – it is the UK network of dementia voices. DEEP consists of around 100 groups of people with dementia – groups that want to change things.

DEEP is:

• a UK wide network – it connects groups to each other to magnify the views, hopes and intentions of people with dementia. It supports groups to share learning and skills and to increase confidence
• independent – the network belongs to the groups themselves, not to any particular dementia service or organisation
• diverse – it is made up of groups strongly rooted in their local communities, including some in care homes
• rights based – it encourages groups to identify and speak out about the issues that are important to them (not only to be ‘consulted’ about issues that are important to others)