Dementia Adviser

Our Dementia Advisers work with people with dementia, their families and carers to provide a highly responsive and individualised information and signposting service.

Our local Dementia Adviser will work with you to:

• Provide information and advice throughout your journey with dementia,
• Help connect you with dementia supports and services,
• Help connect you with local groups and services and,
• Help your community to be more dementia friendly.

In 2017, ASI carried out a client survey to understand peoples experience with the dementia adviser service and the impact it had for them and their family. This will in turn help us to deliver the best possible service and to advocate for more dementia advisers in Ireland. You can read the results of the survey here

This service is free and confidential. Dementia Advisers are not doing any home visits at the moment – the support is only over the phone for the time being due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Our Dementia Advisers are:

• Galway
  Maureen Mannion
  Phone: 086 821 1540
  Email: maureen.mannion@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• South Dublin and North Wicklow
  Aine Bennett
  Phone: 085 801 9186
  E-mail: aine.bennett@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• South Dublin
  Jean Scanlon
  Phone: 086 0454703
  Email: jscanlan@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• North Dublin
  Joanne Brennan
  Phone: 086 380 8492
  Email: jbrennan@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• South Lee, Cork South City, South and West Cork; South Kerry, Dingle
  Vanessa Bradbury
  Phone: 021 497 2504 / 086 021 8463
  Email: vbradbury@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• North Lee, North Cork, North East Kerry and Dingle
  Amy Murphy
  Phone: 086 781 2217
  Email: amurphy@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Cavan, Monaghan and Louth
  Maeve Montgomery
  Phone 087 748 9258
  Email: mmontgomery@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Limerick, Clare, North Tipperary
  Sean Donal O’Shea
  Mob: 0870926617
  Email: seandonal.oshea@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Carlow, Kilkenny
  Claire Cahill
  Mob: 0876857427
  Email: claire.cahill@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Longford, Westmeath, Meath
  Karen Jennings
  Mob: 0872541319
  Email: karen.jennings@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Wexford, South Wicklow
  Laurence Collins
  Mob: 087 350 0312
  Email: laurence.collins@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Waterford, South Tipperary 
  Anne Marie Veale
  Mob: 087 238 8444
  Email: annmarie.veale@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Donegal
  Dawn Thompson
  Mob: 087 380 2957
  Email: dawn.thompson@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim
  Teresa Keegan
  Mob 087 706 1183
  Email: teresa.keegan@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Laois and Offaly
  Ashleigh Ryan
  Mobile: 087 321 0642
  email: ashleigh.ryan@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE
• Kildare and West Wicklow
  Siobhán Breslin
  Mobile: 087 186 4279
  Email: siobhan.breslin@alzheimer.ie
  View information PDF HERE

If there is no Dementia Adviser in your area our Helpline Advisers are available to help people living anywhere in Ireland. Our Helpline Advisers will work with you to help meet your information and support needs and help you to contact local supports and services in your community. Read more about this service by clicking HERE

The Helpline Service is open
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm
Phone: 1800 341 341
Email: helpline@alzheimer.ie

For enquiries about the Dementia Advisor Service contact:

Annie Dillon
National Coordinator, Dementia Advisor Service
adillon@alzheimer.ie
086 4670667

News Update

The ASI received funding late in 2020 from the HSE/Slaintecare to expand our Dementia Advisor Service. We are working collaboratively with the National Dementia Office to deliver a nationwide DA service.
From Mid May we will have 2 further Dementia Advisors available in counties Laois/Offaly and Kildare/West Wicklow.

Funded by the HSE