Dear Resident,

You leave your house, upset. You can’t remember why, but you’re wearing your slippers and no jacket. You don’t have a phone, or any money with you.

You end up in a street that’s familiar to you, but you’re not sure why. It’s now dark. You turn and face one way, then another – then struggle to remember where exactly it was that you came from. Was it two streets away? Three? More than that?

This is the reality for many people living with dementia or Alzheimer’s in Cambridgeshire. There are more than 10,000 people in our county doing so. 

Over the past year we’ve highlighted many examples just like this, and thanked kind-hearted members of the public who have taken time out of their day to help the vulnerable person, called us and helped reunited them with their loved ones. 

Do you know someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s? A smart wristband will be issued to hundreds of the most vulnerable members of our community as part of a new project.

This week is the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Action Week and we’re highlighting these new wristbands and the Herbert Protocol.

Have you heard of it? It’s a scheme we support that can help find people with dementia if they go missing. 

It encourages family and friends to keep a document that will help officers in the event a loved one goes missing by collating key pieces of information, such as a physical description, familiar places, health details and an up-to-date photo.

To read more about the new scheme, and to complete our new Herbert Protocol form for a family member or loved one and register your interest in a dementia wristband, see our website.

Kind regards,