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Nobody hands you a plan. What families told us about looking after someone with terminal illness
Nobody hands you a plan When someone in the family is diagnosed with dementia, most people assume there is a system. A nurse, a leaflet, a list. Someone who says here is what happens next. There usually isn’t. In a 2024 survey of 251 people with dementia in the family, two in three said they […]
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Writing down care preferences before they are needed
If you could not speak for yourself, the people caring for you would have to guess. Writing it down removes the guessing, and it can be as simple or as formal as you want.
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Talking to parents about getting organised
Nobody enjoys this conversation. The families who have it early, badly and more than once are still far better off than the ones who never manage it at all.
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