Citation: Evans-Lacko, Sara, Farina, N., Ferri, Cleusa, Franzon, Ana Carolina, Godoy, Carolina, Hurzuk, S., Jacobs, R., Mata, F., Mateus, Elaine, Musyimi, C., Muyela, Levi, Oliveira, Deborah, Ong, E., López-Ortega, Mariana, Surawattananon, N. and Weidner, W. (2022) Don’t forget I’m human –reducing dementia stigma. The STRiDE Anti-Stigma Toolkit. London School of Economics and Political ScienceSTRiDE Toolkit acknowledgments
First and foremost, we would like to thank the people living with dementia and care partners who bravely shared their stories in order to bring this toolkit to life: Andre and Maryna, Marinda Breedt (Lötter), Celinha Oliveira, William Buntoro, Joy, Rose Matsetela, Emily Ong (ADI Board member, DAI Environmental Design SIG project lead, Dementia Singapore Voices for Hope Co-facilitator),. We want to further thank the STRiDE team members for their hard work and dedication in developing this toolkit by collecting stories from people with lived experience in their local contexts, working with their communities to develop anti-stigma programmes and advocate for change: Adelina Comas-Herrera, Nicolas Farina, Cleusa Ferri, Ana Carolina Franzon, Ishtar Govia, Saadiya Hurzuk, Roxanne Jacobs, Fabiana Da Mata, Elaine Mateus, Christine Musyimi, Elizabeth Mutunga, Levi Muyela, David M Ndetei, Deborah Oliveira, Mariana López Ortega, Meera Pattabiraman, Tara Puspitarini Sani, Narendhar Ramasamy, Janelle Robinson, Imelda Theresia, Marguerite Schneider, Petra du Toit and Wendy Weidner. Thank you to Martin Knapp and Anji Mehta for their overall STRiDE project support.
Thank you to Ben Schlaepfer for all of the technical support and careful attention to detail in the development and design of the online toolkit. Thank you to James Rattee for developing the toolkit trailer film and for the expertise and support in developing local films for virtual contact videos.
Thank you enormously to Sue Baker OBE, Director, Changing Minds Globally for the support, advice, feedback and inspiration to make sure that this toolkit builds on what we know about how to make meaningful social change.
Thank you to the Time to Change Global programme which motivated this toolkit, the Time to Change programme in England and Mind.
Thank you to Alzheimer’s Disease International for their support in the development of this toolkit and to Patricia Conboy for her helpful feedback and support.
This work was supported by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund (grant number ES/P010938/1). The sponsor had no role in the development of this toolkit.