If someone has dementia, it’s really important that they organise their financial and legal affairs while they are still able to do so.
The Alzheimer’s Society has produced several very useful documents:
They have also produced some great factsheets:
- Understanding and respecting the person with dementia (524)
- Carers: Looking after yourself (523)
- The Mental Health Act 1983 and guardianship (459)
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 (460)
- Communicating (500)
- Moving and walking about (501)
- Managing toilet problems and incontinence (502)
- Safety in the home (503)
- Washing and bathing (504)
- Grief, loss and bereavement (507)
- Dressing (510)
- Eating and drinking (511)
- Pressure ulcers (bed sores) (512)
- Sex and dementia (514)
- Respite care (462)
- Selecting a care home (476)
- Supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual people with dementia (480)
- Dementia and aggressive behaviour (509)
- Dealing with guilt (516)
- Unusual behaviour (525)
- How the GP can support a person with dementia (425)
- Hospital discharge (453)
- How health and social care professionals can help (454)
- Community care assessment (418)
- When does the local authority pay for care? (469)
- Care on a hospital ward (477)
- Moving into a care home – advice for lesbian, gay and bisexual people (482)
- Paying care home fees (468)
- Assessments for NHS-funded nursing care (452)
- Making decisions and managing difficult situations (484)
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) (483)
- Becoming a deputy for a person with dementia (530)