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Name: | Raisa Hollaway-Hambidge |
Age: | 17 |
Year of the Fix: | 2013 |
Location: | Westgate-On-Sea, Kent |
Campaign: | To get young people talking about dementia |
I’ve seen first-hand how dementia can affect people. It’s a condition that can lead to memory loss, confusion and mood changes and is commonly caused by the illness, Alzheimer’s.
I lost my grandad to Alzheimer’s. He was diagnosed when I was 11 and by the end he didn’t know who I was.
I think people are frightened of dementia, possibly because they don’t understand it and it’s still a bit taboo.
When someone has dementia it affects the whole family, not just the person suffering from it, so it’s important that it is spoken about.
For my Fixers project I want to get young people talking about dementia. I’m designing wristbands asking them to commit to trying to understand the condition.
I hope this will help young people and their families open up about how to deal with dementia, allowing them to make the most of the time they have with a loved one once they’ve been diagnosed.
Here are the Fixers helping me with my Fix:
Paul Jacobs
Katie Barton
My Fixers project was supported by the Cabinet Office’s Youth Social Action Fund.
As part of the Cabinet Office initiative ‘Step Up to Serve’, which is spearheaded by HRH the Prince of Wales, Fixers is working in partnership with the Youth Social Action Fund (YSAF) to offer the Fixer experience specifically to young people aged between 16 and 20 in Birmingham and parts of Kent.
East Kent Independent Dementia Support
Janet Britt from the charity supports my Fix and appeared in my broadcast story.
Ben Simms
Chelsie Brown
Olivia G
Liam Thomas
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Jack H
Macauley Collinson
Jade Kingdom
Ethan Mcinally
Timothy Cranfield
Fixers
Tilly and Bella
Fern Lulham
Mason Latey
Shak & Natasha
Shannon Rawlings
Meghann
Lauren Taylor
'Kate'
Shano
Sam Barakat
Hannah Baker
Hannah Carter
Alexandra Garrick
Sam Womack