Glenda talks about her work raising awareness with young people.

I strongly believe that educating children to understand dementia better is really important. I have been to about five groups with a dementia champion, talking to children about living with dementia.

They’re like sponges; they just take it all in, and then they go home, they talk to their mums and dads and then they talk to the next door neighbour, and suddenly you have a dementia community where lots of people know about dementia.

Plus, I am on the steering group to make Bangor University dementia-friendly, and the launch is on Wednesday evening.

I am doing this because I feel that when we are going into primary schools, we are teaching the children of the future about living with dementia.

I have also taught children 11-12, and then I was going into the university, and I feel that one day I am also going to be in the university talking to a child when he was about ten about living with dementia. And these children are the future — maybe one of them will find a cure for dementia one day. So I think it’s really important to educate our children not to be afraid of people living with dementia, and how well we can live.