Top Tips for Having Meaningful Conversations
Meaningful conversations help people feel heard, valued and connected.
dementia
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Top Tips for Supporting Choice
Choice helps people maintain independence, dignity and a sense of control.
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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.
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Belonging Begins with Being Seen
Exploring how we need to look behind the label of dementia, to see the whole person, including their life history and identity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
