Faith groups and churches world wide honour and care for older people. It can be difficult if the person is affected by dementia and congregations may wonder how to support their family care givers. This advice has been recognised as helpful in many settings.

Don’t wait until a crisis forces your hand. With expert guidance, you can create a clear, practical plan that protects your loved one — and saves you money, stress, and heartache.

Knowing and understanding your legal rights as a carer, and making preparations (that might never be needed) is a sensible way to save cost on the emotional and financial demands of caring.

In the second part of my list of dementia essentials, education and support for family care givers is highlighted

With any big life change, you need to have some idea what might be coming and prepare for it, if you can. The sorts of problems in dementia are well known, so it’s a pity not to have advance warning and take action to avoid them as long as possible.

I tried to list 10 key things to support carers of people with dementia, and then the list got longer. So here are 11 key things we need to do now, to scale, with all seriousness.

We are still failing people with dementia. The reality for too many families is grim.

If you are a carer at Christmas, here is the list you must give to your friends and family, so they can tell Santa what you would like!