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The Virtual Carers Centre is for you if you support or care for someone with dementia. There are plenty of resources to explore, so let’s get started.
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The Virtual Carers Centre is built for family carers like you who support or care for someone with dementia. We want to make this centre as useful and helpful as we can for you, so please let us know if you have any feedback.
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The Virtual Carers Centre is built for family carers like you who support or care for someone with dementia. We want to make this centre as useful and helpful as we can for you, so please let us know if you have any feedback.
Welcome
The Virtual Carers Centre is built for family carers like you who support or care for someone with dementia. We want to make this centre as useful and helpful as we can for you, so please let us know if you have any feedback.
The Virtual Carers Centre is a resource for you, the carer, complete with articles, videos, presentations and more, which you’ll find below.
Browse all resources
Click here to view all the articles on Virtual Carers Centre. Step inside.
What our carers say
Hear from some of our carers about the impact our Virtual Carer Centre resources have had for them.
Live online learning
Head to our live online learning section and find out more about our free webinars available to you.
Find out more about …
Being a carer
Let’s examines why the language we use to talk about caring matters. You will also find information about support and benefits available to family carers.
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Legal rights
We go through the legislation that affects carers and those they look after, including the Mental Capacity Act and the process of applying for a Lasting Power of Attorney.
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Emotional wellbeing
As a carer, looking after your own emotional and physical health, and building your resilience, is as important as attending to the needs of the person you care for.
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The brain
Understanding how dementia affects different parts of the brain is useful for carers trying to make sense of the changes the condition causes in people’s behaviour.
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Everyday challenges
Dementia brings challenges for people with the condition as well as their carers. This section looks at some of the more common issues and suggests things that might help.
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Health promotion
Eating healthily, exercising regularly and finding time to relax are vital to encouraging better health and wellbeing both for carers and the people they look after.
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and what else we can do to make sure you are well-supported at this time.
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