Living Well With Dementia Scotland

Caring for someone with early stage dementia.

Living well with dementia scotland.

This means that we all get to spend more time with our loved ones. With the right care information and support when you need it many people can and do live well with dementia for several years. Dementia can affect all aspects of a person s life as well as their family s. It is time for a rethink on the living well with dementia narrative and marketing to living as best as we can.

A guide for carers. Thomas monaghan our portfolio lead discusses our living and dying well with frailty collaborative people in scotland are living longer than ever before which is to be celebrated. This is scotland s third national dementia strategy. Dementia and the workplace.

In the early stages of dementia you may be able to live at home continuing to enjoy doing the things you have always done and having an active social life. A guide for employers in scotland. A practical guide for carers external understanding dementia. A carers guide to creating a dementia friendly home.

Alzheimer scotland action on dementia is a company limited by guarantee registered in scotland 149069. Benefits for people living with dementia. Download our living well with dementia resource. If your gp or psychiatrist has told you that you have dementia then nhs health scotland s living well with dementia booklet pdf will help you understand more about your illness how to cope with your symptoms and plan for your future.

Living well with your diagnosis external coping with dementia. Healthy living and dementia. Deafness and dementia in scotland putting numbers on the map. Read more about living well with dementia in alzheimer s society s dementia guide.

Call our freephone 24 hour dementia helpline. When you need extra help and support. Learning disability and dementia. However people are not just living longer.

It was written with the help of people diagnosed with dementia. They are living longer with more. If we truly listen and support people to feel empowered and to share what matters to them then all of us can live as best we can. Living well with early stage dementia.

Living well with dementia. Living well with dementia external younger people with dementia. If you need help don t be afraid to ask for it from family and friends professionals such as doctors nurses and social workers and charities like alzheimer scotland. We share alzheimer scotland s vision where people with dementia and those who care for them have access to timely skilled and well coordinated support from diagnosis to end of life which helps achieve the outcomes that matter to them.