Dementia care at home
Familiar rooms, a familiar routine, and familiar faces do more for somebody with dementia than any amount of rearranging. Support at home is built to protect all three.
Photograph to source: an older woman folding laundry at her own kitchen table with a support worker beside her doing the same, both occupied, unhurried, daylight. She is doing something, not being watched
What dementia care covers
- Keeping a daily routine steady, in the order the person is used to
- Personal care handled in a way that does not cause distress
- Meals, fluids, and medication kept on track
- Company and activity that suits where somebody is now, not where they were
- Practical safety around the house — the stove, the stairs, the front door
- Regular respite so a family carer can sleep, work, or leave the house
Who it is for
- Someone in the early stages who is managing, but managing less well than last year
- Someone further on, where the day needs holding together by somebody else
- A spouse or adult child who has become a full-time carer without ever deciding to
- A household where the nights have become the hard part
What to expect from a caregiver
Continuity above everything. A new face every week undoes the thing this support exists to protect, so we hold the same caregiver in place harder here than anywhere else.
They will work with the version of the day that the person is in. Correcting somebody repeatedly is not care, and arguing about what year it is helps nobody.
They will tell you what they noticed. Families often see the change in steps, and somebody who is there weekly sees the slope.
Common questions
Is it too early for us to be asking about this?
Usually not. Support introduced while somebody can still get used to a new person goes in far more easily than support introduced in a crisis.
My father gets agitated in the late afternoon. Can you help with that?
Yes, and it is common enough to have a name. Tell us when it happens and what makes it worse, and we will build the visits around it rather than through it.
Can we get a break without moving him out of the house?
Yes. Respite at home, from a few hours to overnight or longer, is one of the more common reasons families call us.
What if he will not accept a stranger in the house?
Tell us on the call. Starting with something ordinary and short, at a good time of day, works better than starting with personal care.
Talk to us about dementia care
Tell us what the days look like now and we will tell you what we would put in place.
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