Strategies for Looking After Yourself

Step 2 - Include your own needs on a day-to-day basis

Routine is important for your loved one with dementia - but it is also important for you.

So, try to build a routine that introduces or includes an element in each segment below.

We will be covering some of these areas from the person with dementias perspective throughout the course. For example we will look at Staying Active and in Week 6 we will look at Food and Nutrition, However, it is worth noting that much of the same guidance applies to you the caregiver too!