DEMENTIA FRIENDS

THE Ministry of Transport is the latest government department to become a ‘Dementia Friend’ as the Rock strives to make the community more aware of this cruel disease.

Government ministers became ‘Dementia Friends’ collectively in September after World Alzheimer’s Day and other departments have followed suit since then.

Minister for Transport Paul Balban said: “It was then that I realised the importance of being aware of dementia and began looking at how we could assist this very worthy cause within the Ministry of Transport’s relevant departments.”

Balban spoke at the Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Society (GADS) seminar led by the group’s chairperson Daphne Alcantara.