Maintaining the health of a person with dementia

Jun 6, 2018 | Advice, Health

Looking at the bigger picture of a person with dementia’s health is important. Hayley Cantrell, manager of Foxearth Lodge Nursing Home (https://www.foxearthlodge.co.uk), explains how to take care of a loved one.  If a loved one is living with a diagnosis of dementia,...

Dementia Help Cycle Challenge

Mar 5, 2018 | News

The Dementia Help team is cycling 330 miles across the country in June to raise vital funds for YoungDementia UK. Dementia Help’s founder, Christina Neal, her co-director Peter Berry and website editor Dave Collison will be cycling 330 miles from Aberystwyth to...

‘I juggled my business with caring for mum’

Feb 4, 2018 | Featured

Businesswoman Monica Bradley had to juggle long hours at work running her own company with caring for her mother, Agnes. Here’s her story…  I’m used to hard work. I built a successful mortgage broker’s business from scratch. I have been self-employed for 30...

Why Dementia Help was launched

Feb 2, 2018 | Featured

Dementia Help is a year old today. Founder and co-director Christina Neal talks about the inspiration behind its launch and why she felt she had something to say.  Dementia Help was a random idea that came to me in December 2016 while I was in the gym. It was six...

Support is so crucial

Aug 20, 2017 | Advice

My mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2009. She’d had a stressful few years, looking after my father who died in 2007. Shortly after he died, I noticed she wasn’t coping very well, which was understandable, but then I realised it was more serious. Her...