Introduction

This section offers Carers some information into ‘What is Dementia’ and how it affects individuals. The section also offers information and ideas about how to make your daily routine and your home more accessible to a person with dementia. 

You may also find other fact sheets helpful:

• Assessment and diagnosis
• Treatment and therapy for people with dementia 
• Lasting Power of Attorney and Receivership 
• Different stages of dementia (early, middle and advanced).

Please contact the DISC office for further information.

A person with dementia is unable to balance the decline in thinking, remembering and reasoning.

The way you interact with the individual and the physical environment (house and other aspects of the home) need, as far as possible, to take account of and compensate for, memory loss and brain damage. The aim is to create a more ‘dementia friendly’ environment.

We are constantly looking to improve our information. It will help if you let us know whether the information in this fact sheet is/is not useful and if there are other fact sheets that you would have found helpful that we have not yet provided.

It is also strongly recommended that medical advice should ALWAYS be sought in cases of concern or uncertainty. While the information contained in this section is believed to be correct, DISC does not accept liability for any error/s it may contain.

To download a basic awareness slideshow on Dementia, click here.