Home Care Toolkit
Online Toolkit For People Working In Home Care
In 2020 Sheffield City Council embarked upon a homecare transformation project. This project seeks to improve the experiences of people living with dementia in Sheffield who use homecare. The project aims to move away from time and task based care, to a truly holistic and person centred way of delivering essential care services in people’s homes.
Learning more about dementia
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Learning more about dementia
This page contains resources to support you to learn more about dementia, including information on types of dementia and additional resources to enhance your understanding.
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Training topics expanded
This page contains extra resources to support you to learn more about supporting people living with dementia, for example with information and guidance on communicating and eating/drinking.
Practical ideas to support a person with dementia
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Practical ideas to support a person with dementia
This page contains really useful practical ideas that you can implement in your work when supporting a person with dementia, for example, life story work and suggestions to help you know what to say in when asked difficult questions.
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Supporting yourself
This page is full of lots of resources and ideas to help you to access support and practice self-care, from mental wellbeing support, to bereavement support and tips for accessing help when needed.