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Carers of people with dementia

  • Overview
  • Diagnosing dementia
    • Suspicions - early signs of dementia
    • Signs of dementia
    • Deterioration, severe dementia
    • Diagnosis of dementia
    • Delayed diagnosis, midiagnosis and contested diagnosis
    • Tests for dementia
    • Getting the diagnosis of dementia
    • Genetic testing for dementia
    • Ideas about causes of dementia
  • Treatment and care for dementia
    • Treatment for dementia
    • Relieving symptoms of dementia
    • Strategies to cope with dementia - some suggestions from carers
    • Difficulties in taking medication and overcoming them
  • Experiences of being a carer for someone with dementia
    • Becoming a carer for a person with dementia
    • Caring for a person with dementia from a distance
    • Friends and family reactions and support to carers
    • Sources of support for carers of a person with dementia
    • Assessments and care plans for carers of and people with dementia
    • Home care for a person living with dementia
    • Day care options and respite for carers of a person with dementia
    • Problems with provisions for carers and people living with dementia
    • Looking for information about dementia and caring for a person with dementia
    • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
    • Health and fitness of carers
  • Residential care for people living with dementia
    • Arranging residential care for a person with dementia
    • Becoming a resident at a care home for dementia
  • Difficult experiences and decisions involved in being a carer for a person with dementia
    • Wandering and dementia
    • Driving and dementia
    • Money and dementia
    • Self-care with dementia
    • Respect with dementia
    • Living with change
    • Complicated emotions
    • Challenging behaviour
    • End of life with dementia
  • Advice to other carers
    • Advice to other carers of people living with dementia
    • Person – centred care (holistic care)
  • People's Profiles
    • Caring for parents
    • Caring with young children
    • Men caring for partners
    • Women caring for partners
    • Caring for people of working age
    • Caring for relatives or friends
    • Young carers
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Carers of people with dementia

Profiles - Young carers

Ellie

Ellie cared for her mother, who had early onset dementia.

Kiran

Kiran, aged 25, cared for her grandmother between the approximate ages of 8-21. She lived with her grandmother in the family home and provided the day-to-day care for her grandmother. Kiran is South Asian British.

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