Get details of organisations that can help if you or someone living with dementia is feeling grief, loss or bereavement. 

Like anyone, a person with dementia may respond to bereavement in a range of ways. Read our advice on telling the person about a death.

Readjusting after bereavement can be very challenging. Here is our advice for coping at this difficult time. 

Everyone reacts and copes with bereavement in their own personal way. Here we outline what you might be feeling and some tips for when the person dies. 

If the person with dementia goes into residential care, you may experience a range of feelings including relief, sadness and guilt. Read our tips for if and when this time comes. 

People with dementia may also develop feelings of grief as their condition progresses. Read our tips for supporting the person during grief.

As someone supporting a person with dementia, you may cope well at times, and at other times feel overwhelmed by sadness or anger, or simply feel numb. Here we suggest ways of coping with some of the difficult feelings you may have. 

After someone is diagnosed with dementia and as it progresses, they and the people close to them may have many different, conflicting feelings. 

When you are close to a person with dementia you may go through feelings of grief and loss. Here we take a look at these feelings in more detail.