Living alone with dementia
Welcome to our research project on Living alone with dementia: managing without informal support to contact and navigate services.
We provide recommendations about how to identify people who live alone with dementia and have no informal support, and how to help them plan ahead and access the support they need. We have developed resources for people living with dementia, providers, commissioners and practitioners.
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“Just keep going”: Living alone with dementia and without informal support
“When you go to a service they assume that there is input from families in the background.” For Dementia Action Week, we shine a light on the experiences of an often forgotten
No assumptions, just relationships
In this guest blog Jane King, a front line adult social worker and researcher, tells us about the importance of relational practice with people living alone with dementia. Over the years, the people
We exist
People can and do live on their own with dementia and without informal support. The Living Alone with Dementia project has co-developed resources that offer advice and guidance to enable this, based on
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