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Therapeutic interventions Interventions aimed at creating a consistent sense of identity You can help create a consistent sense of identity within the person living with a dementia by keeping the…

Interventions aimed at helping to establish emotional security You can help establish emotional security within the person living with a dementia by keeping the following in mind. I have provided…

Building blocks of a programme approach to therapeutic care design Working with the person not the disease is the holy grail of dementia care, working with families both now and…

The first building block for good care for those living with a dementia is to know their story, preserve it and when the time arises, use this privileged knowledge to…

Fundamental elements – basic tools Clearly there are a number of elements that are essentials for the provision of good, person centred dementia care. When we refer to ‘good’ we…

Doing with, not to While it may be a largely accurate statement to say that as most of the major dementias progress in both terms of time and severity the…

In our last blog we looked at many of the positive qualities that have been identified in carers that enhance wellbeing and lead to the conditions for good, positive, affirming…

This week we discuss how it is you, the caregiver, and the qualities you bring to the caregiving relationship, that define the ‘outcomes’ when we deliver care for someone living…