Top Tips – Tuesdays
Top Tips for Making Time Outdoors Meaningful
Being outdoors is about more than getting fresh air. Meaningful outdoor experiences for people with dementia can support purpose, connection and wellbeing.
Top Tips for Bringing the Outdoors In
Not everyone can easily access outdoor spaces. Bringing elements of nature indoors can encourage conversation, stimulate the senses and create meaningful moments.
Top Tips for Staying Comfortable During Hot Weather
Small adjustments can help people feel more comfortable, maintain independence and enjoy their day.
Top Tips for Creating Magical Meaningful Moments
Some of the most memorable moments in dementia care are often the simplest.
Top Tips for Having Meaningful Conversations
Meaningful conversations help people feel heard, valued and connected.
Top Tips for Supporting Choice
Choice helps people maintain independence, dignity and a sense of control.
Top Tips for Creating a Warm Welcome
The way we welcome someone can shape their whole experience. For people living with dementia, a warm welcome can help reduce anxiety and create a sense of safety and belonging.
Top Tips for Leaders: Building a Values-Led Culture
Leaders shape culture and create environments where values are sustained.
Top Tips for Using Observation to Strengthen Values-Based Care
Observation helps reveal how values are lived in practice and supports reflection and improvement.
Top Tips for Recognising and Celebrating Values in Action
It is easy to focus on what goes wrong and overlook positive practice. Recognising values in action strengthens culture.
Top Tips for Embedding Values into Everyday Dementia Care Practice
Values are most powerful when they shape behaviour in real situations. In dementia care, this includes how we respond to distress, communicate, and support dignity.
Top Tips for Understanding Vision, Mission and Values in Dementia Care
Vision, mission and values are often written down but not always brought to life. In dementia care, they are not abstract ideas.
Top Tips for Why Inclusion Is More than Awareness
Dementia Action Week challenges us to move beyond awareness and ask what inclusion looks like in practice, across services, communities and everyday encounters.
Top Tips for Working Alongside Families and Unpaid Carers
During Dementia Action Week, it is important to recognise carers not simply as helpers, but as people who need understanding, partnership and support in their own right.
Top Tips for Seeing the Person beyond the Dementia
When dementia becomes the dominant lens, people risk being treated as a set of symptoms rather than as individuals with lives, histories and agency.
Top Tips for why Diagnosis Still Matters
During the month of Dementia Action Week, it is worth revisiting why diagnosis still matters, especially when conversations about dementia can feel difficult, delayed or avoided.
Top Tips for Responding to Stress in People with Dementia
Here are 20 Top Tips for spotting the signs of stress in people with dementia.
Top Tips for Causes of Stress in People with Dementia
Here are 20 Top Tips for spotting the signs of stress in people with dementia.
Top Tips for Identifying Stress and Distress in People with Dementia
Here are 20 Top Tips for spotting the signs of stress in people with dementia.
Top Tips for Becoming a Dementia Behaviour Detective: The 4 Ws before the Why
Here are 20 Top Tips for spotting the signs of stress in people with dementia.
Top Tips for Dealing with “Distress-related Behaviours“ in Dementia Care
Distress‑related behaviours are often a form of communication. These tips can help you understand what the person may be trying to tell you and support them safely, compassionately and respectfully…