Dementia Support in Liverpool: Help with Memory
Are you or someone you love in Liverpool worried about memory? Getting help early is important.
Are you or someone you love in Liverpool worried about memory? Getting help early is important. We offer Dementia Support in Liverpool.
What Happens When You Get Help?
Talk About Worries: We will listen carefully to your worries. We want to understand what is happening.
Simple Checks & Blood Tests: If we need to know more, we will do some simple checks. This might include blood tests to look for reasons why memory is changing.
Help from a Special Memory Clinic: If you need more help, we will send you to a special memory clinic here in Liverpool. They can do more checks.
Help After a Dementia Diagnosis: Dementia Support
Receiving a dementia diagnosis means you are not alone. Our doctors’ practice offers:
Yearly Health Checks: We will check your health every year to make sure you are well.
Making It Easier to Talk and Understand
For individuals with dementia, delirium, or other communication challenges, familiar routines and understanding are key.
The ‘This is Me’ Paper: This paper helps you share important things about someone. You can give it to new helpers or if they go to a new place. It tells people what the person likes, what their life was like, and what they need.
If talking is hard because of dementia or other reasons, having a usual routine and people who understand you is very important. This is me | Alzheimer’s Society
NHS Dementia Care Guide: The NHS has a helpful guide to live well with dementia. It has lots of useful ideas. Dementia care planning toolkit
The My House of Memories app is free and easy to use. It’s from National Museums Liverpool. It helps people look at old things and share memories. It’s great for people with dementia and their families, but anyone can enjoy it.
You can look at interesting old things from different times. Hear sounds, music, and read about them. Save your favourite things to a special memory tree or box on your phone. You can also add your own photos to share your memories.
Get the free My House of Memories app here:
- Apple App Store: My House of Memories on the App Store
- Google Play Store: My House of Memories – Apps on Google Play
Start looking at memories and sharing with family in Liverpool today!
If you look after someone with dementia in Liverpool, remember, help is here for you too. It’s important to look after yourself. Here are local places that help dementia carers:
Tide (Together in Dementia Everyday):
This is a charity that helps people who care for someone with dementia. They are here in Liverpool. Call them on 0151 237 2669.
Together in dementia everyday. When no one else was here for me, tide were beside me
Liverpool Carer Advocacy Service:
This service gives advice and help to carers in Liverpool. They can help you with the hard parts of looking after someone. You can call them on 0151 298 2999.
My Time:
This service lets carers take a break and look after themselves. They offer fun things to do, like trips away or special tea. Call them on 0151 705 2327.
Here are more places that can give help and ideas for people with dementia and their families in Liverpool:
Clocks for Memory
Think about using clocks made for people with dementia. They are easy to read and can help tell the time. You can find these online by looking for ‘dementia clocks’ or ‘clocks for memory loss’.
Council Tax Help
The Alzheimer’s Society has help with Council Tax. You might pay less if someone in your home has dementia. Discounts, disregards and exemptions on council tax | Alzheimer’s Society
Attendance Allowance Money
Citizens Advice has help about Attendance Allowance. This is money to help with extra costs if someone needs a lot of personal care because of dementia. What is Attendance Allowance – Citizens Advice
Alzheimer’s Society
This is a big UK charity that helps people with dementia and their families. Their website has lots of help and ideas. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
Alzheimer’s UK
(This is part of the Alzheimer’s Society). They also have help and ideas just for people in the UK. https://alz.org/uk/dementia-alzheimers-uk
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