Recommended Sites
Organisations
Provide local services all over Scotland for people with dementia and their carers. They also provide the national Dementia Helpline.
The Scottish Dementia Working Group is an independent group run by people with dementia. The Working Group campaigns to improve services for people with dementia and to improve attitudes towards people with dementia
Life Story Help
The Living Memory Association is an Edinburgh based group that aims to bring people together through reminiscence and oral history work.
The objects of Vision for Leith shall be to promote and encourage the development of the community in Leith through education and caring. They are taking part in the Caring Memories project and will assist people living in Edinburgh to make their own Life Story Books.
Illustrated books for people with dementia or Alzheimer's Disease and their carers to help reminiscence.
Support for Carers
'Good Ideas' Booklet from Centre for Older Person's Agenda (COPA)
A 'Good Ideas' booklet to help carers in their work with older people has been developed by the RBS Centre for the Older Person's Agenda (COPA), in association with NHS Health Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council's Department of Health and Social Care. The booklet offers a host of useful practical suggestions and has been developed to help day carers and respite carers who work with older people in their own homes.
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