Workshops are being held at the the city's Royal Cornhill Hospital using specially modified goggles, gloves and other equipment to simulate symptoms.
It is aimed at carers and those who have friends or relatives affected by the condition.
Staff say the equipment frequently leaves people with a completely new understanding of the disease.
Participants are asked to fulfil basic tasks such as getting into bed, writing their name or buttoning up clothing.
Julia Wells, an older adults mental health nurse consultant with NHS Grampian, said: "With the number of people living with the disease expected to double over the next 10 years, it's vital that we do everything we can to raise awareness of dementia.
"Dementia Awareness Week in general and workshops offer a great platform to do just that.
"It also helps to reduce some of the stigma that still exists around the disease."

Photos shared by local media show copies of the Islamic holy book in three toilet bowls.
Campus police say the case is "strange" and "very unusual" due to the religious and ethnic diversity at the school.
Police are trying to identify one of six people seen entering the toilet on the evening of the incident, 28 March.
Investigators have been reviewing security footage to find a suspect.
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A reflection room where multi-faith prayer books are kept on the building's ground floor was not touched, according to investigators.
Police Chief Larry Zacharias told the Dallas Morning News: "No one knows who owns the books, so that makes it difficult."
Mohammad Syed, president of the college's Muslim Student Association, told local media the case was "definitely saddening and a little disturbing as well".
"While there is a little voice of hate, there is an overwhelming voice of love and support and we definitely appreciate that," he said.
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He added that the university is "a very welcoming environment".
The Korans were discovered by members of the student government after an evening meeting.
"I was appalled," said Jonathan Schuler, who found the sacred texts in the toilets.
"It made a lot of the hate I had been hearing and seeing on national news real, and very present."
The student senators have released a statement calling it an isolated incident that does not represent the university community.
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HIE along with other public bodies are to be run by a single board under Scottish government plans.
The government has said services already provided in the Highlands and Islands would be protected.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie unveiled the petition on a visit to Inverness.
He and his party argue that decisions on HIE should be taken by a board based in the Highlands and Islands.
In October, the Scottish government set out plans to reform Scotland's enterprise and skills agencies in a report on Phase 1 of its Enterprise and Skills Review.
It has proposed setting up a new single Scotland-wide statutory board to co-ordinate the activities of HIE, Scottish Enterprise and other public bodies.
HIE began as Highlands and Islands Development Board more than 50 years ago. It supports businesses and initiatives in the Highlands, Western Isles, Northern Isles, Moray and Argyll.

The words for Be Mery were found "doodled" in the back of a monk's prayer book dating back to about 1500.
It is the only surviving book of its type from the East Sussex abbey, built on the site of the Battle of Hastings.
Visitors will be able to hear a recording of the song for the first time since the Reformation.
The carol was found by English Heritage historian Dr Michael Carter while he was researching the history of Battle Abbey.
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The service book is now in the library of Trinity College, in Cambridge.
Dr Carter said: "This carol is clear evidence that the Battle monks were very much part of the thriving devotional culture of Catholic England, a culture brutally cut short by the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries which extinguished 500 years of religious life at Battle.
"Our new exhibition has been designed to reveal insights into that life, the importance of prayer and worship, the tremendous power and wealth of the abbey and what it was like to be an ordinary monk there."
Be Mery has been performed and recorded for English Heritage by Schola Gregoriana: The Association for Gregorian Chant.
The new permanent exhibition opens on Saturday in the abbey gatehouse.
Source: English Heritage
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