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This is our resources page for unpaid carers of people with dementia. These materials are the outcome of our work from recent years and have been co-produced with current and former carers. All the materials are free and designed to help you at various stages of your caring journey from managing feelings of grief to moving a loved one into residential care.
For further advice and support please see our National Advice and Helplines Page
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Life story work is fundamentally about understanding what life that person has had, what their life is now and their wishes for the future. It’s an activity in which the person with dementia is supported by family members to gather and review their past life events and build a personal biography. It is used to help the person understand their past experiences and how they have coped with events in their life.
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We have developed with carers a series of online events that are designed to help you on your caring journey. From understanding your own emotional well-being to practical workshops that will give you tools and tips on caring.
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Unnecessary admissions to hospital and unnecessarily prolonged stays in hospital can have severe detrimental effects on people living with dementia . This can be prevented with an individualised and person-centred approach, ensuring that people living with dementia receive the right care in the right environment – in the community where possible or in hospital when needed.
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Enabling people with any long term health condition to discuss and record future care wishes can lead to reductions in non-essential hospital admissions, better experience for patients and families and improved care outcomes.
This is sometimes known as Advance Care Planning
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This leaflet has been produced to give you general information about delirium. If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to discuss this with a member of the healthcare team who has been caring for your friend or relative.
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Making Shared Care a Reality is a powerful report by Together in Dementia Everyday (tide) that highlights the critical importance of continued carer involvement after a person with dementia enters a care home.
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The world of medication can be complicated and difficult to wrap your head around. This is why we have created this simplified guide to dementia drugs with Aisling O'Neill
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Home is such an important place for us all - without a home we can feel lost or insecure, with it we can have a place of refuge and comfort. And our home contains so many memories, objects, relationships that contribute to our sense of who we are.
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Incisive Health developed a toolkit to help you gain a better understanding of the parliamentary landscape and influence dementia policy and practice.
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Tide approached Meri Yadaain CiC to work in partnership building on tide's niche branding of Dekh Bhaal to reach out to more ethnically diverse communities in Scotland. A report on tide's work commissioned in Scotland noted that: ‘tide may benefit from monitoring the social and demographic profile of its growing membership in Scotland, in
accordance with its ongoing efforts to ensure the network provides a safe and inclusive space within which carers from a diverse range of backgrounds can connect with each other
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Feelings of grief and bereavement are understood when someone has died but what about when the person is still living? We understand carers of people with dementia sometimes feel this way.
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Carers have shared with us making the decision to move someone into a care home is an extremely hard decision to make. With carers, we have created a toolkit to assist you through this process; Moving Forward, a guide for families and relatives involved in or supporting someone to move into a care home.
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‘I’m surrounded but I’m alone. I’ve never felt so isolated.’
We delve into the way carers really feel in their day-to-day lives. Being a carer means your life is so busy. You will be meeting with different healthcare professionals and may have care workers coming in and out of your house. A day in the life of a carer is so busy. You barely have time to think for yourself. You are surrounded but can feel so alone.
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‘Dementia Dekh Bhaal’, meaning ‘to care for dementia’, was set up by tide – together in dementia everyday.
We were commissioned by the HMR Clinical Commissioning Group and Rochdale Borough Council to review their dementia offer and included a section on the needs of ethnically diverse communities.
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tide has improved the lives of carers of people with dementia in Scotland. This animation and 2 films show how tide has helped make a difference to people who care for someone with dementia.
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Welcome to our Link and Learn webinar series hosted in partnership by Alzheimer Scotland and tide.
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As the global pandemic took hold families felt a physical and emotional separation from their relatives living in care homes. We have developed two toolkits; one for families and one for professionals, to help restore the relationship between care home staff and relatives.
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This is a partnership project between tide and Making Space, funded by The Legal Education Foundation whose aim is to raise awareness and knowledge of the legal rights of carers of people with dementia.