Factsheets

Alzheimer's Society factsheets cover a wide range of dementia-related topics. The online sheets can be saved as a PDF, printed as seen on screen or emailed to a friend.

The most popular factsheets are available on tape and CD. The Publications department can also print out some factsheets in larger text if needed.

To purchase printed copies of any of the sheets*, please contact Xcalibre on 01628 529240 or alzheimers@xcalibrefs.co.uk

For further information, email the publications team

Causes of dementia, progression and drug treatments

• What is dementia? (400)
• What is Alzheimer's disease? (401)
• What is vascular dementia? (402)
• What is dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)? (403)
• What is fronto-temporal dementia (including Pick's disease)? (404)
• Genetics and dementia (405)
• Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease (406)
• Drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease (407)
• Drugs used to relieve behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (408)
• The later stages of dementia (417)
• What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)? (427)
• Learning disabilities and dementia (430)
• Complementary and alternative therapies and dementia (434)
• What is Korsakoff's syndrome? (438)
• Younger people with dementia (440)
• Rarer causes of dementia (442)
• Depression (444)
• What is HIV-related cognitive impairment? (446)
• Am I at risk of developing dementia? (450)
• The brain and behaviour (456)
• The progression of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (458)
• Mild cognitive impairment (470)
• What is posterior cortical atrophy (PCA)? (479)
  
• Hallucinations in people with dementia (520)
• Visuoperceptual difficulties in dementia (527)

Emotional and practical support

• Volunteering for research into dementia (409)
• Brain tissue donations (410)
• Adaptations, improvements and repairs to the home (428)
• Equipment to help with disability (429)
• The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) (436)
• Assistive technology - devices to help with everyday living (437)
• Driving and dementia (439)
• Talking therapies (including counselling, psychotherapy and CBT) (445)
• Dental care and dementia (448)
• Supporting a person with dementia during visits, holidays and celebrations (455)
• Respite care (462)
• After a diagnosis (471)
• Travelling and going on holiday (474)
• Frequently asked legal questions (475)
• Selecting a care home (476)
• Understanding and respecting lesbian and gay people (480)
  
• Choosing residential accommodation for lesbian and gay people (482)
• Communicating (500)
• Moving and walking about (501)
• Coping with incontinence (502)
• Safety in the home (503)
• Washing and bathing (504)
• Keeping active and staying involved (505)
• Grief and bereavement (507)
• Dealing with aggressive behaviour (509)
• Dressing (510)
• Eating and drinking (511)
• Pressure sores (512)
• Sex and dementia (514)
• Dementia and children or young people (515)
• Dealing with guilt (516)
• Living alone (517)
• What if I have dementia? (518)
• Maintaining everyday skills (521)
• Staying healthy (522)
• Carers: looking after yourself (523)
• Understanding and respecting the person with dementia (524)
• Unusual behaviour (525)
• Coping with memory loss (526)
• Urinary tract infection (UTI) and dementia (528)
• Exercise and physical activity for people with dementia (529)

Health and social care

• Community care assessment (418)
• How the GP can help (425)
• Diagnosis and assessment (426)
• What standards of care can people expect from a care home? (451)
• Assessments for NHS-funded nursing care (452)
• Hospital discharge (453)
• How health and social care professionals can help (454)
• Choices in care (465)
• Care on a hospital ward (477)
  

Legal and financial information

• Benefits (413)
• Council tax (414)
• Benefits rates and income/savings thresholds (431)
• The Mental Health Act 1983 and guardianship (459)
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 (460)
• Advance decision (463)
• Financial and legal affairs (467)
• Paying care home fees (468)
• When does the local authority pay for care? (469)
• Enduring power of attorney and lasting powers of attorney (472)
• Direct payments (473)
  
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (483)
  

*Up to six sheets are free; further copies cost 20p each.