Information Factsheets for Carers, Family and Friends
Guideposts’ specialist dementia team, with the help of carers and professionals has put together a series of factsheets. They can help people who are new to caring or those who have been caring for some time and have new concerns. They offer practical solutions and ideas to make the role of being a carer more manageable. More factsheets are on the way.
Hints and Tips Factsheets
- Understanding Dementia
- Person Centred Care
- Communication
- Life History
- Helping a Person with Personal Care
- Keeping Active and Occupied
- Helping a Person to Eat and Drink
- Behaviours that Challenge
- Care at Home and Care Homes
- Carer Support
- Getting help from Adult Services Departments
- Alcohol-Related Brain Damage
- Huntington’s Disease
- Dementia and Down’s Syndrome
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Other more in-depth Factsheets
What Tips are Available?
The Alzheimer’s Society produces a large range of well researched factsheets. Factsheets include:
- Incontinence
- Safety in the home
- Pressure sores
- Explaining to children
- Living alone
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Maintaining skills
- Staying healthy
- Voluntary organisations
- Benefits
- Council tax
- Adaptations, improvements and repairs to the home
- Equipment to help with disability
- The Mental Health Act 2007 and Guardianship
- Dental care and dementia
Do You Have a Tip to Share?
If you have a tip to help people, in relation to living with dementia, we would love to hear from you. Please take the time to use our Feedback Form to share your tips.
