DementiaRoadmap Wales

A Pocket Guide to Being Dementia Supportive provides a few useful tips from Ageing Well in Wales partners about how you can be more supportive to people living with dementia. Even the smallest action can make a big difference.

Topics covered in the guide: –

• Speak clearly
• Body language
• Listen
• Show respect and patience
• Keep the noise down
• Environment and lighting
• Help with handling money
• Finding the way
• Feeling lost
• Difficulty finding things
• Making choices
• Whose reality
• Being predictable
• Every day can be different
• Feelings matter most
• The essential ingredients of a Dementia Supportive Community

View the guide via the link below: –

http://www.ageingwellinwales.com/Libraries/Documents/Pocket-Guide-to-Being-Dementia-Supportive-eng.pdf

For more information and resources on how to be dementia supportive, please visit:

http://www.ageingwellin wales.com/dementia

or contact:

Tel: 02920445036

Email: ageingwell@olderpeoplewales.com