Community Support
Community Support for people living with dementia
There are dementia link workers in every neighbourhood across Sheffield who can provide people living locally with dementia with support, advice and also a range of dementia specific activities and events.
You can refer somebody in to Age UK Sheffield’s Dementia Advice Service using this downloadable referral form: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/sheffield/our-services/dementia-advice-sheffield/referring-to-our-service/
For information about locally-delivered dementia services through Sheffield City Council's People Keeping Well in the Community programme, click here.
You can also contact The Alzheimer’s Society: 0333 150 3456
Or
Sheffield Memory Service on: (0114) 271 8585
Community support for people living with dementia’s family, friends & supporters
Individual’s family and friends understandably sometimes find the demands of supporting their loved one with dementia difficult. There are organisations in Sheffield who can support family and friends through their unique dementia journey, offering timely interventions at the appropriate time. Equally, there are national organisations who support and advocate for informal carers in a number of ways. Some of these organisations are listed below:
Sheffield Carers Centre
Provide advice, information and support including advice line, carers café peer support (including online), Time for a Break fund, carer discount card and carer’s needs assessment.
Carer Advice line: 0114 272 8362
Avoiding caregiver stress and burnout
The demands of caregiving can be exhausting and overwhelming—especially if you feel that you’re in over your head or have little control over the situation. But this article gives steps you can take to rein in stress and regain a sense of balance, joy, and hope in your life.
www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/caregiver-stress-and-burnout.htm
Carers UK
TIDE dementia carers support page
Together In Dementia Everyday (TIDE) has set up a closed facebook page to support dementia carers.
www.facebook.com/groups/tidecarerssupport
Dementia Carers UK
Offer a virtual carers centre with tips on managing stress and building resilience, solutions to everyday challenges, and learning from other carers’ experiences.
www.dementiacarers.org.uk/virtual-carers-centre
Dementia Adventure
Host free online dementia skills workshops for family carers who are isolated at this time. Topics include continuing to see the person (not the condition), strategies to overcome communication barriers, practical tips to connect with a person with dementia and the benefits of contact with nature and the outdoors.
www.dementiaadventure.co.uk/what-we-do/training-and-consultancy/free-events
Resource pack for carers
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have produced a resource pack for carers ‘Caring for someone with dementia at home’. It includes tips for managing, activity ideas, self-care tips for carers, managing stress, muscle relaxation exercises, meeting needs, online resource links, TV and radio resources.
www.yhscn.nhs.uk/media/PDFs/mhdn/Dementia/Covid 19/Dementia Carer Pack A4 Flyers 230420 (4).pdf