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Until very recently, dementia has not been seen as a disability. It has only been seen as the pathway to chronic and progressive decline and death. When a person is diagnosed with dementia, there is often a “prescribed disengagement” from their life before their dementia diagnosis. However, under the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, all persons with disabilities, including those caused by the symptoms of dementia, must expect and receive full and proactive disability support. Access to this Convention was one of the demands I made as Chair, CEO and Co-founder of Dementia Alliance International (the voice of people with dementia) at the World Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Dementia in March 2015. What matters now is that people living with dementia around the world will become empowered to use their unquestionable right of access to this and to other relevant Human Rights Conventions. Human rights are the key to protecting the interests of people living with dementia worldwide. Much of the care currently received by people with dementia is unacceptable in all other areas of health or disability.