Dementia guide for carers and care providers

[wendy]

Dementia guide for carers and care providers
If you care for someone with dementia, this guide is for you.

It summarises many things you and the person you are caring for may need to think about. Some of the information here is important now. Other information will be useful later but is here for reference when you need it.

The guide contains six main sections:

Understanding dementia: what it is, its symptoms and treatment
Day-to-day-living: looking after the person with dementia, yourself, and the family
Support: people and organisations who can help
Legal and money: advice and sources of help
Symptoms and behaviours: a look-up guide
Medical terms: definitions of medical terms and abbreviations which medical professionals may use.

A benefit of having this information together and easily available is that you will be able to show it to other people, including the person you are caring for, where appropriate. Family members, friends or colleagues may all need information to understand what is happening and to see how they can help.
Free to share

This guide is freely available in a number of formats. You can find it as a free e-book on Kindle, or as a free app on the Apple, Android and Windows stores. Look for 'Dementia guide for carers' on each platform. Or you can download the guide in 'epub' e-book format.
Advice about links

If you have downloaded this guide as an app or e-book you can use it anywhere, without an internet connection. The text contains many links to external information sources, so you can follow up details on specific topics. These links will work only when you have an internet connection for the phone or tablet you are using.

The links have all been checked to ensure they are working at the time of publication but over time organisations sometimes change addresses for their links (their URLs). If you find a link is not working, and you are sure you have an internet connection, try going to the main link of the organisation and searching for the information you need on their main site. For example, if the text gives a link for a particular fact sheet from the NHS but the link does not work, go to the main NHS web site and search there for the information you need.

Note that Health Education England Thames Valley is not responsible for the content of external sites.
http://cidr.textmatters.com/

[annie]

happiday oko oko than999