It might be a nagging feeling in the back of your mind, that something isn’t quite right.

The fear when you get lost in a familiar environment.

Trying to reach for something, that isn’t quite where you thought it was.

What do you do? If you think you have dementia?

It might be a nagging feeling in the back of your mind, that something isn’t quite right.

The fear when you get lost in a familiar environment.

Trying to reach for something, that isn’t quite where you thought it was.

What do you do? If you think you have dementia?

It might be a nagging feeling in the back of your mind, that something isn’t quite right.

The fear when you get lost in a familiar environment.

Trying to reach for something, that isn’t quite where you thought it was.

What do you do? If you think you have dementia?

It might be a nagging feeling in the back of your mind, that something isn’t quite right.

The fear when you get lost in a familiar environment.

Trying to reach for something, that isn’t quite where you thought it was.

What do you do? If you think you have dementia?

We all dream of it, don’t we!? ‘I can’t wait to retire.’ ‘If I win the lottery the first thing I will do is retire.’ We look forward to doing, well quite frankly what we please! It can be a tricky time in your life though, when I talk to many people who have retired, they talk about the loss of many friendships and connections with others as they don’t work anymore.

‘I can’t believe they only visit their Mum once a week.’ ‘I haven’t even met their son.’ We can be all too quick to judge when it comes to people and how many times they visit their ‘loved one’ in a care home or generally as they are getting older at home.

It can be tricky as people living with Dementia go through their journey they might start to change in tastes and interests. It can sometimes be difficult to watch as the person who you are close to begins to move away from the person you knew.

It can be really tricky visiting someone who may be in the same environment day in day out. Like a care home or their own home if they don’t go out much.

Its the moment that every relative and even professional carer dreads, the one that makes most people nervous just thinking about. When you go up to a person with dementia ready to share and talk about memories of the past and they simply reply ‘Who are you?’ or worse still they turn away and ignore you all together.

‘Oh isn’t it awful’ ‘They just get lost don’t they’ ‘It is a fate worse than death!’ are just some of the responses we receive when we express that we work with people with dementia by doing creative workshops with them.