Dementia Cafés offer a place to socialise, learn more about dementia and local services, and enjoy something new each session. Mike and Gwen Smith have been going to their local Dementia Café in ...

How can dementia affect a person's appetite? A person with dementia may lose interest in food. They may refuse to eat it or may spit it out. The person may become angry or agitated, or behave in a ...

Find out some dementia-friendly ways of ensuring consent is valid, when you are doing research with people affected by dementia. Traditional approaches to ensuring informed consent may be too reliant ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

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DiADeM is a tool to support GPs in diagnosing dementia for people living with advanced dementia in a care home setting. It has been developed by the Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Strategic Clinical ...

‘I’m proof that dementia can surprise anyone,’ says Elaine in Surrey, aged 52. When she developed symptoms in 2021, they were initially put down to stress and the menopause. Mum to two daughters, now ...

Find out why a person may hide, hoard or lose things, as well as how you can help. A person with dementia may hide things, store them for a long time, or lose them. This can be distressing for the ...

If you're living with dementia, find out about technology that can help with different aspects of daily life. There are many different technologies that can help you in your everyday life. This ...

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It can be difficult to know when a person with dementia is nearing the end of their life. Late-stage dementia symptoms and faster deterioration of the person's condition may suggest that the dying ...

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