Hi i'm new here at the forum i am requiring some help from families of parents/partners living with dementia who are willing to tell me their personal accounts of support from diagnosis of dementia and decisions that have been made by yourselves.
Please let me explain, I am currently studying a year long dementia course I am a unit manager in a residential home, I am responsible for our dementia unit and have 16 residents living with dementia.
My assignment is to work with families to understand the feelings and emotions they felt from diagnosis, decision making, support ( if any ) how you went about any decisions made, I have personal experience as both my grandparents lived with dementia one was cared for at home and the surviving spouse ended in a care environment ,I lived with my fathers decisions and accounts of support he and his brother had (none), I would like to set up a family support group at our home but am unsure of the response as it is such a delicate personal thing you are all living with.
I would be grateful for ideas, accounts feelings and emotions but I am most certainly understand if i have no response as it is such a huge thing I am asking of you.
Many thanks for reading this
Witchkat35
Please let me explain, I am currently studying a year long dementia course I am a unit manager in a residential home, I am responsible for our dementia unit and have 16 residents living with dementia.
My assignment is to work with families to understand the feelings and emotions they felt from diagnosis, decision making, support ( if any ) how you went about any decisions made, I have personal experience as both my grandparents lived with dementia one was cared for at home and the surviving spouse ended in a care environment ,I lived with my fathers decisions and accounts of support he and his brother had (none), I would like to set up a family support group at our home but am unsure of the response as it is such a delicate personal thing you are all living with.
I would be grateful for ideas, accounts feelings and emotions but I am most certainly understand if i have no response as it is such a huge thing I am asking of you.
Many thanks for reading this
Witchkat35