Dementia Advocacy


Invicta Advocacy Network provides independent advocacy to people with dementia, whether diagnosed or suspected, across West Kent – this includes the localities of Maidstone and Malling; South West Kent and Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley area.

A Dementia Advocate can be an additional safeguard in some-one’s life and will represent that person’s views as if they were their own. The service is for:

  1. People who are able to consent to decisions being made for and about them, and with support make their own choices;

    and

  2. People who lack mental capacity to make specific decisions. Advocates will ensure on behalf of those people, that everything that is done for them is in their best interests, is the least restrictive option and has regard to their wishes and feelings (past and present): most importantly, that they remain central to any decision made for and about them.

Advocates visit clients in their own home, in care or nursing home or in hospital, in fact wherever the person is resident at the time.

Issues include present and future care, safeguarding, access to services, information on rights and entitlements, and any issue where the person with dementia is not able to speak up and an independent voice is needed.

Advocates respond to referrals made by the person, by family/carers, by health or social care professionals, by hospital/clinical staff, or by staff in care homes/nursing homes.



Requests for a Dementia Advocate can be made by contacting the office on

01322 285234

(9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday)


This page last updated Mon, 29 August 2011