Tips to support people living with dementia

Tips and stories to support a good quality of life with dementia. Exploring how small changes to lifestyle can lead to better health and well being.

Walking Safely with Dementia offers information, tips and strategies for you if you are living with dementia, and also for your family and carers. It suggests ways you can walk safely and how we as a community can help if you become lost or disoriented.

Keeping your brain healthy is essential for living a fulfilling, healthy and long life. In fact, scientific research suggests that a brain-healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of developing dementia later in life. Whether you are old, young or in-between, there are simple changes you can make to improve and protect your brain health. It is never too late to get started.

Teaching caregivers how to find dementia-friendly daily activities and introduce them into a person's life, this comprehensive, empathetic guide is aimed at both family members and professionals. Twelve chapters full of useful, tangible activities touch on a range of topics, including exercise, technology, cooking and baking, memory games, and arts and crafts.

Proven to enhance wellbeing, posture, breathing and sleep, and reduce anxiety and agitation, this programme shows how yoga can be adapted to benefit people living with dementia.

Qigong is the centuries-old practice of moving vital energy (Qi) through the channels of the body, known as meridians, to promote vitality and health. Stephen Rath details current research and Traditional Chinese Medicine theory to show how Qigong practice can support cognitive functioning, as well as emotional and physical wellbeing, in people with dementia.

Maggie Beer and leading Alzheimer's researcher Professor Ralph Martins have teamed up to provide the steps to maintain a heathy brain - by optimising the goodness in the food you eat every day and making some real lifestyle changes such as increasing regular exercise and mental activity.

This research-informed book explains how to make the most of mealtimes for increased nutritional intake, socialising, and food enjoyment. The book covers topics such as the physical act of eating and drinking and creating a comfortable and friendly dining environment.