@Alisongs I don't want to be negative about your aims but I think you need to take into account the fact that every case of dementia is different so every carer has different problems. My husband is now very loving and caring but he hates to be apart from me for even a few minutes. This means I can't go out and leave him alone or with a carer. Even going somewhere like Wetherspoons would be difficult for me because he would not cope with me being gone as long as it takes for me to get to the toilets (three flights of stairs at our local one). I am lucky that we can still go out but if that changes, I will stuck indoors indefinitely.
Yes I appreciate that there can be problems, but I m not dismissing them, nor can I speak for others with those problems.
My OH could not really be alone at all for months before his recent admission to hospital as his dementia meant he inadvertently abused his diet and medications for Diabetes Type 1 and Parkinsons, even scoffing food when I was in the next room. I was reduced to going into town, with black eyes and a head ache from a bad fall, and catching the next bus home just to pick up undelivered prescription items, and essentials supposedly out of stock after an online order. If others can benefit from the ideas, good on them. OH has been diagnosed with brittle (unstable) diabetes, that cannot be controlled well even in a medical setting..... I'm trying to make others feel better by finding positivity in small things, that I may not be able to do myself. Wallowing in my miserable lack of a life just made me more miserable. I'm trying to gather together supportive ideas for other struggles. I'm thinking outside my box so I'm not imprisoned by my box. Some ideas may help some, and not others. These are not all my ideas. There is no one size fits all