Dementia
Dementia is used as a term to describe many conditions that affect the brain. Dementia UK has a large amount of information and resources to help support anyone affected by dementia.
In the list below, there are links to Dementia UK for information on the 6 most common types of dementia that you will come across but please note there are many more and Dementia UK has further information on these.
Useful resources
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- Alzheimer’s: ‘this is me’ leaflet
- The Kings Fund: Is your care home dementia friendly?
- Communication cue cards
- Managing distress
- Changes in sexual behaviour- Dementia UK
- BPSD Poster
- Needs tree
- Dementia and delirium
- Behavioural well being assessment
- Behavioural well being care plan form
- Behaviour evaluation form
- DiADeM tool
- Music and dementia
Please also check out Mental health and distressed behaviour section for additional resources
Useful websites
Cognitive change and frontotemporal dementia | MND Association
Adult mental health teams- Oxford Health NHS foundation trust
Useful videos
Therapeutic Lies in Dementia Care – Ian James
Understanding sensory changes in Dementia
Fundamental needs in Dementia
Understanding memory changes in Dementia
Understanding Thinking in Dementia: Fast and Slow
Formulations in dementia care – an animation from the CAIT and Newcastle Model series
Micro-cues for providing a sense of belonging in dementia care
Use of verbal judo in dementia care
Behaviours that challenge in dementia care
Person-centred restraint in dementia care
Dementia specific communication and PAL
Communication in dementia care: problems to avoid
Namaste care for people living with dementia
Reasons for distress and agitation in dementia
Micro skills used to deliver good dementia care
How to use eye-contact to communicate that you care
Person-centered interactions: the giving and receiving of objects
Value of activating the ‘happy’ hormones in people living with dementia
How to approach residents with behaviours
Understanding how the Frontal Lobe guides dementia care
Bathing and Dementia – with Teepa Snow of Positive Approach to Care (PAC)