Dementia | DEMENTIA FRIENDLY INVERCLYDE
Show your commitment to dementia friendly Inverclyde by supporting people living with dementia.
Help is support and facilitate local communities within Inverclyde!
Inverclyde prides itself in being a community that cares. If you would like to get involved and find out more about our dementia friendly communities and how we can work together to best support you, please get in touch!
Become more dementia aware
Be inclusive of people with dementia
and their carers
Make small changes to the environment, supporting people impacted by dementia to live well and feel connected to their community
Be part of a social movement to make Inverclyde dementia friendly
Dementia Friendly Tips
Keep a daily note book / calendar - encourage and support person living with dementia to update and use on a daily basis…. Important to write notes in calendars/notebooks to keep a log of how person with dementia is feeling.
Dementia Friendly Tips
Large face clock with light - When placed around the home, these clocks allow those living with dementia to see the time and date, thus reducing the confusion and anxiety associated with being unable to tell the time.
Dementia Friendly Tips.
Where possible, continue to do things together - work together in garden, go for a walk together. The person with dementia assists to dry dishes daily, empty dishwasher etc. - reduces isolation and creates a sense of purpose, routine and encourages independence.
Get in touch!
enquiries@yourvoice.org.uk
01475 728628
Your Voice, 12 Clyde Square, Greenock PA15 1NB