Dementia and memory problems: links and resources
Age UK
Age UK have information and advice on benefits and dementia.
Alzheimer’s Society
Alzheimer’s Society offer dedicated support to those who need support immediately, campaign for change and fund groundbreaking research for a better tomorrow. They also have useful information on assistive technology and benefits.
Carers UK
A charity for unpaid carers that provides expert information, advice and support, and campaigns to make life better for carers.
Deep
https://www.dementiavoices.org.uk/
A network of groups of people with dementia across the UK. They also have a booklet for people recently diagnosed with dementia called “Knowledge is Power”
Dementia UK
A specialist dementia nursing charity that offers support for the whole family. Admiral Nurses are based with Dementia UK and run a helpline.
Forward with Dementia
Resource offering practical advice for people living with dementia, carers and health workers.
Innovations in dementia
A non-profit that promotes positive ways of talking about dementia. The have a useful workbook for people living with dementia called “My Life My Goals Workbook“.
Meri Yaadain
https://www.meriyaadain.co.uk/livingwithdementia/
Information specifically for people from South Asian communities, living with dementia.
Young Dementia Network
https://www.youngdementianetwork.org/
Information for people living with young onset dementia and their families.
Books written by people with dementia:
Dementia from the Inside: A Doctor’s Personal Journey of Hope by Jennifer Bute
Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell.
What I Wish I Knew About Dementia by Wendy Mitchell.
Books about dementia:
Aging With Grace by David Snowdon.
Dementia Reconsidered, Revisited: The Person Still Comes First by Tom Kitwood, edited by Dawn Brooker.
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. This novel has also been adapted into a BBC film.
Books about dementia for children:
Big Bear, Little Bear and Dementia by Katie Faulkner and Iain Welch.
My Grandma Has Dementia by Alex Winstanley and Adam Walker-Parker.
The Tide by Clare Helen Welsh and Ashling Lindsay.
Who made this dementia and memory problems section?
Credits Lyndsay Lindley Lyndsay is a qualitative researcher at the University of York. Her research interests are in care of older people and life with...