A CARER'S MENTAL HEALTH TOOLKIT
Supporting someone with an ongoing or terminal condition puts an enormous strain on your own mental and physical health. You find...
Supporting someone with an ongoing or terminal condition puts an enormous strain on your own mental and physical health. You find...
A life story interrupted A person can tell their story and communicate their perspective until dementia begins to interrupt. They then...
With mental ill health such as depression, symptoms are not always clear. They may develop gradually and often you do not have insight...
My office door opened a foot. A blonde head and a smiling face appeared. 'Are you going to stay in there skiving all day?' Tony is in his...
Adapting to change is easiest when people want to make it work. Unless you have everyone’s full support you are likely to end up as a...
We are living through troubled times and it looks like social isolation is going to be with us for some time. You may not be able to meet...
Caring for someone with dementia can seem like a constant search for solutions to problems. It demands creative thinking, being willing...
Why bother with a life history? We all like to tell stories of things that happened to us. We do it at get to-gethers with family and...
Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe symptoms of a number of underlying diseases and brain disorders. Put simply, nerve cells in...