Together apart: A guide to visiting from a distance
Healthy relationships with family, friends and colleagues are important for everyone’s well-being. Changes that occur with dementia can strain these relationships and cause confusion and misunderstanding. Here's help to cope.
Healthy relationships with family, friends and colleagues are important for everyone’s well-being. The changes that occur with dementia can strain these relationships and cause confusion and misunderstanding. This section guides people with dementia, their caregivers, family and health-care professionals in ways to cope with these changes and stay connected at the same time.
Visiting someone with dementia (courtesy of Oxford Alzheimer Society)
Friends, neighbours and extended family are important sources of support for the family.