[3] A specialist training program was initially set up in 1988, before the first Admiral Nurses were appointed in 1990 at the Middlesex Hospital.

[4] The project was started by Ninot Levy and Jane Jason, wife and daughter of property developer Joseph Levy CBE BEM, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia in the 1980s and was inspired by the specialist support given by Macmillan Nurses to those with cancer.

[5] Dementia UK is registered in England and Wales as a charity and a company limited by guarantee.

Admiral Nurses work in NHS hospitals, care homes, hospices, GP practices, as well as throughout local communities.

It is intended to provide opportunity for knowledge share, campaigning and collaboration between professionals and those affected by young onset dementia.