We are a dedicated team of professionals with expertise in dementia, aiming to provide support, understanding, and intervention for challenging behaviours in dementia.
Dementia Community Promoting Independence Service
Our Dementia Professional can work with individuals in a tailored and flexible way in order for their outcomes to be achieved.
We provide support for individuals with dementia who exhibit challenging behaviours, including but not limited to agitation, aggression, anxiety, and more, causing stress for both them and their carers.
We undertake a full profile of each individual to understand the type of dementia / cognitive impairment the person is living with and propose individualised interventions, tailored to address each person's unique needs to support the person to live well and their families.
Referrals can be made via your health or social care professional.
Contact us for more information about our service and how we can help you:
Email: demprofessional@carerstrusthofe.org.uk
Phone: 02476101040 (Monday to Friday 9-5)
Dementia Lifestyle Coach
Our Dementia Lifestyle Coach can work with individuals and carers to develop appropriate activity programmes for carers and people living with dementia.
We are able to support the individuals and their carers to develop community links to access activities that meet their needs and aspirations.
We use the butterfly model approach of dementia care, working alongside a range of professionals.
We are a dedicated team of professionals with expertise in dementia, aiming to provide support, understanding, and intervention for challenging behaviours in dementia.
Contact us for more information about our service and how we can help you:
Email: demlifestyle@carerstrusthofe.org.uk
Phone: 02476101040 (Monday to Friday 9-5)
Resources that can help you with caring for someone with dementia:
- Caring for a person with dementia: A Practical Guide: This comprehensive guide from the Alzheimer’s Society provides practical help, ideas, and suggestions to help you adjust to living with dementia. It includes details of how and where to get further support.
- Your health and wellbeing as a carer for a person with dementia: This resource from the Alzheimer’s Society looks at some common feelings that carers of people living with dementia may have and suggests ways you can try to cope with challenges and improve your own health and wellbeing.
- Help and support with dementia care: The Alzheimer’s Society offers advice on getting help and support when caring for someone with dementia, including information about getting support from your GP, health and social care professionals, respite care, and how carers can look after themselves too.
- Caring for someone with dementia information guide: Age UK provides a guide containing practical and emotional advice on what dementia is, where to find support, practical things to do, help with care, and the later stages of dementia.
- DEEP stands for the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project – it is the UK network of dementia voices. DEEP consists of around 80 groups of people with dementia – groups that want to change things.
- Blue Badge Parking Scheme: This comprehensive guide from the Alzheimer’s Society provides the criteria for a blue badge in England and how it may apply to a person with dementia. This may be useful for a person with dementia or someone helping them to complete the application. For more information and how to apply, please visit Coventry City Council.
Our partners at Carers Trust provide free training courses to help you understand and cope with caring for someone with dementia.
