
(by Staff Reporter, Your Thurrock, May 7, 2024)
FREEMASONS across England and Wales are raising awareness and provide practical support for sufferers and carers in their communities as part of Dementia Action Week from 13th to 19th May 2024.
A grand total of 20,000 Art Therapy Books are being donated to over 150 hospital wards, dementia charities and support groups across England and Wales. The United Grand Lodge of England in conjunction with the Masonic Charitable Foundation joined efforts to support the annual campaign for those suffering with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
Resulting from various diseases and injuries that affect the brain, dementia is the seventh leading cause of death, affecting more than 55 million people globally. Each year nearly 10 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide, this equates to one every three seconds. It is estimated that up to three quarters of those with dementia have not…
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