LIBRARIES across North Yorkshire will host events to support Dementia Action Week.

All libraries in the region are dementia friendly, with training for staff and volunteers and working with partners to host memory cafes, and a number of events will be held for the campaign, which runs from May 21 to 27.

County Councillor Greg White, Executive member for libraries, said: "The library service aims to support the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia, to raise awareness and understanding, to promote self-help and to provide information and signposting to enable people to gain support."

Dementia Action Week aims to encourage people to take action to improve the lives of those affected by dementia, and create a dementia friendly UK where those with dementia do not feel excluded.

Information displays will be on show in Leyburn, Thirsk, Bedale, Hawes, Tadcaster, Sherburn, with other events including a reminiscence session at Selby Library on Thursday, May 24, at 2pm, a memory cafe in Harrogate on Friday, May 25 between 10am and noon, and a display and dementia drop-in at Eastfield on Tuesday, May 22.

In Knaresborough there will also be a Reading Well dementia display with information promoting Dementia Forward.

For more information go to northyorks.gov.uk