The voice, friend and future of all carers of people with dementia
Connect - Carers who are members of tide have said meeting people, hearing and sharing stories helps with feelings of loneliness and isolation. You can join us at our friendly get-togethers.
Confidence - we have developed with carers a series of online events that are designed to help you on your caring journey through our Carer Development Programme. From understanding your own emotional wellbeing to workshops on practical caring solutions
Influence - we believe in creating real change together. Whether it's having the right information at a Doctor's appointment, making changes locally, or influencing at a national level to create policy change. We will support you to make your voice heard.
Are you a dementia professional? Check out our tide for dementia professionals page for information and advice
"It is important to belong to an organisation that has the interests of carers at heart. I feel the view of carers can be considered to be second-class and yet we are advocates for those loved ones and friends who cannot advocate for themselves. tide helps carers to spread the word about caring for those living with dementia. It helps us develop our own skills & knowledge and how it impacts on us."
Dementia Dekh Bhaal Scotland
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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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Living Grief and Bereavement
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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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Carer Development Programme
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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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Scottish Rural Carers
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tide supports carers making their voice heard so they can improve the health and social care services they use. We will share the results of this study with decision makers, rural communities, health and social care professionals and other rural and island carers. We hope that this will help us to influence the quality of health and social care planning decisions in rural Scotland
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Practical Carers
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We have collaborated with Cognihealth to bring you webinars all about dementia care. These webinars cover common issues or topics related to dementia care. We now have a Practical Carers focus group which aims to give practical guidance on how to approach dementia care
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Moving Forward
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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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Crowded Isolation and Loneliness
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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
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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 in Scotland
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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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Link and Learn with Alz Scot
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Welcome to our Link and Learn webinar series hosted in partnership by Alzheimer Scotland and tide.
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Restoring Relationships
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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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My Home Matters
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We wanted to know from older people who had some memory loss what ‘home’ meant to them. The things that they told us were important to them were personal but also had a lot in common. It was very clear that our sense of who we are is tied up with our ideas about ‘home’.
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Life Story Work
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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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Law 4 Dementia Carers (L4DC)
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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.
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