What is good to know for people living with dementia. 

o   You can use this entrance to find concrete information about the disease and how it develops. It will help you to understand the disease, what to expect as the disease evolves and how you can react towards it. You can visit the material together with your relatives, so that you can understand and prepare yourself together.

–        What is good to know for relatives and friends to people living with dementia. 

o   You can use this entrance to know what you can do as a relative to cope the best way towards the disease, to understand how the relationship with your loved one will change as the disease evolves, and how you can support him or her in order for both of you to have quality in life despite the disease. This can help you to ask for qualified help and assistance and put forward realistic and just requests.

–        What is good to know for a health professional being in contact with people living with dementia and their relatives. 

o   You can use this entrance to seek information about dementia and how a good relationship between the person living with dementia, relatives and health care professionals can be established. This can help you to create an effective and high quality collaboration where expectations, needs and wishes are better described, expressed and clear for all.

–        What is good to know for volunteers providing help and assistance to people living with dementia and their relatives. 

o   You can use this entrance to seek information about dementia and inspiration on how volunteers and civil society organization can support the person living with dementia and relatives in the best way. This information can help to put forward realistic and just expectations, to create an effective and high quality collaboration where expectations, needs and wishes are better described, expressed and clear for all.

If you want to know more about some material coming from another country, you are welcome to contact the contact person from the given country, who can help you either to explain the material or to get into contact with those who have developed the material. You find their names and contact details here.

If you click on the flag for your language, you will be directed to a website that only contains material from your specific country.

The Embracing Dementia website also contains a section which is dedicated to the so-called “Community Collaboration Concept”. This concept, which is a process-oriented co-creation method, has been developed within the EDEN project to support the creation of dementia friendly communities, which embraces people living with dementia and their relatives.

The target group for this concept is first of all professionals working in local authorities or volunteers that want to facilitate a process to create this kind of community.

We wish you good reading and learning from the Embracing Dementia website.