If you look after someone with dementia, you need to make sure you take care of your own health and wellbeing. Caring for a person with dementia can be physically and mentally demanding, so it’s vital that you also look after yourself.
Here are some resources that can help you with caring for someone with dementia:
- Caring for a person with dementia: A Practical Guide: This comprehensive guide from the Alzheimer’s Society provides practical help, ideas, and suggestions to help you adjust to living with dementia. It includes details of how and where to get further support.
- Your health and wellbeing as a carer for a person with dementia: This resource from the Alzheimer’s Society looks at some common feelings that carers of people living with dementia may have and suggests ways you can try to cope with challenges and improve your own health and wellbeing.
- Help and support with dementia care: The Alzheimer’s Society offers advice on getting help and support when caring for someone with dementia, including information about getting support from your GP, health and social care professionals, respite care, and how carers can look after themselves too.
- Caring for someone with dementia information guide: Age UK provides a guide containing practical and emotional advice on what dementia is, where to find support, practical things to do, help with care, and the later stages of dementia.
- DEEP stands for the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project – it is the UK network of dementia voices. DEEP consists of around 80 groups of people with dementia – groups that want to change things.
- The Pam Britton Trust: Is a non-profit organisation in Leamington Spa and South Warwickshire that is dedicated to supporting both those with Dementia and their family carer/s. They also facilitate the setting up of local Dementia support groups.
- Blue Badge Parking Scheme: This comprehensive guide from the Alzheimer’s Society provides the criteria for a blue badge in England and how it may apply to a person with dementia. This may be useful for a person with dementia or someone helping them to complete the application. For more information and how to apply, please visit Warwickshire County Council Blue Badge Scheme.
Our partners at Carers Trust provide free training courses to help you understand and cope with caring for someone with dementia.
