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Useful reading for people who are new to caring for someone with dementia
Helpful books and guides if you’re supporting a relative or friend who has dementia.
Updated guide
Our newly updated 188-page Caring for a person with dementia: A practical guide was reviewed by people with lived experience. They advised on what has and would have been most helpful to them in their own caring roles.
How to help
A handbook written by two psychologists that provides a useful, holistic and relationship-centred understanding of dementia for carers.
How to Help Someone with Dementia: A practical handbook, by Michelle Hamill and Martina McCarthy (Welbeck 2022), 192 pages, £10.99, ISBN: 9781789563016. Also available as an ebook.
The basics
A clear, compassionate and accessible guide written by an academic, a person living with dementia and a family carer.
Dementia: The Basics, by Anthea Innes, Lesley Calvert and Gail Bowker (Routledge 2020), 180 pages, £16.99, ISBN 9781138897762. Also available as an ebook.
Other helpful resources:
- Our Carers – looking after yourself factsheet.
- Dementia Support for Family and Friends (second edition), by Dave Pulsford, Rachel Thompson (Jessica Kingsley 2019), 302 pages, £10.99, ISBN: 9781785924378. Also available as an ebook.
- Dementia Essentials: How to guide a loved one through Alzheimer’s or dementia and provide the best care, by Jan Hall (Vermilion 2020), 272 pages, £16.99, ISBN: 9781785043413. Also available as an ebook.