DementiaRoadmap

Promoting living well with dementia across Scotland
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At home

Support can be provided to allow you to live at home, this may include domiciliary support, support with personal care, adjustments to your home and equipment.

You can get more information from:

West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership:  Services for Adults and Older People – West Dunbartonshire HSCP

Alzheimer Scotland West Dunbartonshire on 0141 410 5306

Age Scotland Age Scotland | The Scottish Charity for Older People

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  • Let’s Talk About Dementia and Down’s SyndromeLet’s Talk About Dementia and Down's Syndrome - An easy read booklet about Dementia for adults with Down’s Syndrome
  • Keeping Safe and SecureInformation on keeping safe inside and outside the home from Alzheimer Scotland
  • Useful Products – Alzheimer ScotlandTrusted and impartial advice on useful products for people living with dementia.
  • Keeping Safe – Everyday Living AdviceA range of topics on everyday life while living with dementia from Alzheimer Scotland
  • Stress and DementiaInformation about the link between stress and dementia
  • Tips for Eating and DrinkingTips on eating and drinking for people with dementia and their family and friends
  • Eligibility Criteria for Adult ServicesEligibility Criteria for adult social care services in West Dunbartonshire including and easy read version.
  • My Life AssessmentHow to access support from West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care services
  • Care at Home ServicesCare at Home services in West Dunbartonshire provide care in your own home. This section provides information on referrals and assessments made by social work teams.
  • John’s CampaignJohn’s Campaign is about the right of people who care for someone living with dementia to be able to stay with them – and the right of people with dementia to be able to have a family carer stay with them. It applies to all ...
  • Enabling people with dementia to remain at home: a housing perspectiveThis report published by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network sets out the key role housing providers, and in particular social housing providers, can play in supporting people living with dementia to stay independent in the home of their choice for as long as possible.
  • Dementia Friendly Housing CharterThis toolkit aims to help professionals in their support of people living with dementia in their homes and facilitate consistency and good practice.
  • How living with dementia could beThis short animated video highlights how living with dementia could be through the 'well pathway for dementia'. It shows the importance of a holistic partnership approach to supporting the person with dementia, their families and carers within local community settings.
  • The Daily SparkleThe Daily Sparkle is a professionally written daily and weekly reminiscence and activity tool supported by the UK's leading care organisations such as the NHS, AgeUK and DementiaUK.
  • Making your home dementia friendlyThis booklet published by the Alzheimer's Society aims to help people with dementia to live well in their own home. It describes ways to create or adapt the home environment so that it remains a safe and familiar place. This can help make daily living activities easier and keep people in touch with the things they enjoy doing.
  • Telehealth and Telecare AwareThis online information portal provides a news and information service for people interested in telecare and telehealth.
  • Making your home a better place to live with dementiaThis briefing published by Care and Repair England outlines how people might adapt their homes to help better manage the symptoms associatted with dementia.
  • Assistive technology – devices to help with everyday livingThis factsheet published by the Alzheimer's Society explores technological developments that can help make life easier for people with dementia and their carers in certain situations.
  • Dementia: Finding housing solutionsThis report, published by the National Housing Federation, highlights how good housing and related services can impact positively on the lives of people with dementia, from delaying more intensive forms of care to preventing admission and readmission to hospital.
  • Supporting people with dementia at homeThis training resource published by the Alzheimer’s Society aims to help homecare workers provide excellent person centred support for people with dementia who are living at home.
  • Age, Home and Community: A Strategy For Housing For Scotland’s Older People 2012-21This strategy presents a vision for housing and housing-related support for older people, the outcomes we want to achieve and a framework of actions we will take.
  • Service specification for dementia: better care at home, and in care homesThis specification has been designed to support primary care in the assessment and management of people with problematic symptoms of dementia or other complex presentations living at home, in a care home or other residential setting.
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