When a person with dementia can no longer live alone
Dementia is a progressive disease and there will come a time when it is no longer safe or practical for the person be alone. You may have already accepted that this is inevitable, and you may already be considering the next best step. Christina Neal has some...
How children can help a person with dementia
Children have a valuable role to play in helping a person with dementia – bringing comfort to the person and a calming effect. Derek Fisher suggests nine ways children can help a loved one with dementia. 1. A person with dementia sees a child as a friend. Children of...
No one should face dementia alone
Dementia can be a very lonely experience not only for the person living with it but for those around them, writes Derek Fisher. This became apparent to me when I realised that my father had early signs of Alzheimer’s and I did not know then what I know now. This is a...
Holidays with a person with dementia
I decided to take my mum on holiday. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Mum was feeling very sad about losing my father and was lonely at home on her own. My father died the year before. Mum was devastated. She understandably hadn’t got over the loss, as...