Since 2002, TADA has set up a national toll-free hotline service, providing consultation services such as dementia care skills, social welfare resources, family support services, medical information, and dementia case services. Services such as counseling, interviews, referrals, and assistance are also provided according to the needs of families with dementia.

The hotline is serving more than 7,000 inquiries per year.

In addition, TADA has established a social support network to integrate and update dementia resources, so that people in need can click on the latest information online at any time. To ensure that every people with dementia can receive adequate social support and services during and after the diagnosis. Through the effective use of social resources, it is expected to reduce the pressure and impact of the disease on patients and their families and assist families in coping with the disease and the adjustment of the course of the disease.

Always Remember You

Since 2008, TADA has held "Always Remember You" at a fixed time and place from March to December every year and arranged special lectures and social resource exhibitions for the needs of family members with dementia, to improve family care skills and enhance social resources. In addition, there will be an hour of family support group after the lecture. Family members can share their caring experiences, express their emotions, and gain support from their peers through the group.

The number of people with dementia in Taiwan is increasing rapidly. In the absence of drugs to cure dementia, most people with dementia tend to retreat at home, and their families are also heavily burdened. To meet the needs of family members, TADA has created a new service model for dementia, Family of Wisdom, in 2011 with the concept of family. People with dementia can participate in various favorite activities (karaoke, mahjong, chess, calligraphy, painting, etc.) in this safe and comfortable home environment full of nostalgic atmosphere, while family members can share their caring experiences with other caregivers.

"This is my second home," said one of the caregivers. This service can relieve the physical and mental stress of long-term caregivers and form a mutual support network. This service serves 26 groups of families annually.

Memory Café

The purpose of the lecture is to provide the public, dementia patients, and their families with correct dementia care knowledge and resources. At the same time, it is an opportunity for different family caregivers and people with dementia to get to know and communicate with each other. In addition, we will invite senior family members to share their care experiences in the lecture to enhance the sense of meaning and inner strength of the family members. We also hope that with the help of such community lectures, the community could tolerate and accept people with dementia and build a dementia-friendly society.

Young-onset dementia is typically defined as those that people with dementia under 65. It is estimated that there are 11,310 people with dementia in Taiwan between the ages of 45 and 64. A key differential between senile and younger onset dementia is that young people with dementia are in the active phase of their lives, the complexity of the disease is much higher, and the degradation rate is much faster. Understandably, due to the degenerative nature of this condition, diagnosis can be extremely challenging to process and except for patients, family, and social care.

For this reason, in 2010, TADA began to provide family services for people with young-onset dementia. In 2016, we established ‘House of Memories’, holding a great variety of different activities specifically for younger onset dementia such as sensory stimulation, cognitive activities, exercising group, etc. We also help the family face up to this disease, to prepare them for the degenerative nature of this condition.

Our goal is to promote the life quality of patients and families, as well as bring them warmth and sunshine.

Every Saturday, House of Memories will be turned into a coffee shop from the place that provides service for younger onset dementia and family member. The coffee shop is serviced by a group of younger onset dementia. We try our best to make the impossible possible. Regain the value of life in the corner of their lives and let the professionals and the public value the ability of people living with dementia.

Taiwan Dementia Advisory Group (TDAG) is established in 2019. It is composed of people with dementia and caregivers who can recognize and express themselves. The purpose is to empower people living with dementia and their care partners to express their experiences and perspectives, raise community awareness and change social attitudes, and advocate care services and policy for themselves and by themselves.

The group holds a regular monthly meeting to share their experiences, insight, and suggestion and highlight issues that are important to people affected by dementia. The topics are covered by monitoring the implementation of national plan, dementia-friendly facility and service, dementia care and long-term care, financial safety, wandering and getting lost issues, etc.

Furthermore, TDAG is also involved in a range of awareness-raising work and activities to eliminate stigma and improve the understanding of dementia, including joining the World Alzheimer's Event, talking about their experiences publicly, participating in media interviews, designing the dementia-friendly calendar etc.

TADA launched Dementia Friendly Stores in 2013 and continues to connect chain stores to build a Dementia Friendly Network across the country. After that, TADA started to launch Dementia Friendly Clinics, Dementia Friendly Churches, and Dementia Friendly Organizations. In addition, TADA published the "Dementia Friendly Community Guideline" and "Dementia Friendly Church Guideline" in 2016 and 2017. Since 2019, TADA has worked in dementia-friendly workplaces and has published workplace guidelines. Also, TADA works in many different fields like Banking, MRT, Bus, Police, etc. In 2021, TADA has begun to run a network of guardians of dementia. Neighborhood helps each other so that the missing people who are living with dementia can be reunited with their families as soon as possible. TADA has launched a SOP template for the chief of the village to build up their own SOP.

TADA hosts World Alzheimer's Month campaigns nationally with more than thirty local dementia associations and related organisations. TADA hosts an annual conference with societies or associations of medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, and occupational therapy, etc.

TADA delivers training for formal and informal carers.

• Organized the implementation of education and training courses including annual conferences, different topics of training courses for professionals, care skills for the families, etc.
• Plan the implementation of the dementia care certification system
• Published the production of training materials

• Dementia population estimation: The latest dementia population estimation data is announced in April every year
• Dementia Policy Framework: Successfully assisting the government in developing and promoting a national policy on dementia
• Policies on disability: Successfully obtained subsidies for assistive devices for and job redesign for people with dementia
• Human rights of persons with dementia: the establishment of an advisory group for people with dementia, the right to work, financial security, legal assistance and protection, assistance to the lost, traffic safety, political participation, and other initiatives, as well as initiatives on the human rights of persons with dementia during the epidemic