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Get easy access to this compilation of guides on caring for persons with dementia.

For resources on caregiving in general, visit this page.

For resources on mental health, visit this page.

For service information, linkage, and resources on mental health or caregiving, email us at ccmh@aic.sg.

Resource for Home Modifications

360 Degree Virtual Reality Dementia-Friendly HDB Home Design Guide

360 Degree Virtual Reality Dementia-Friendly HDB Home Design Guide is a localised virtual reality home design guide for caregivers on how to make your home dementia-friendly for your loved one. Try the modifications today!

Experience the guide here and share your feedback with us at ccmh@aic.sg.

Ask The Expert Video Series Resources

Whether you are a caregiver, a person living with dementia (PLWD), or know a caregiver or PLWD, we hope that you can find some inspiration and helpful tips. Click here to view a playlist of the videos in this series.

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Episode 1: Do I Have Dementia? Where To Seek Support?

I keep forgetting whether I locked my door. Do I have dementia? How was it like to get a diagnosis? What treatments are available? In the first episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Dr Chen Shiling and Ms Emily Ong answer questions related to dementia diagnosis and treatment.

Knowing Dementia

Care For Yourself

Understanding Dementia eLearning

Mind Matters Resource Directory Listings

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Episode 2: Planning Ahead Finances and Legal

I am worried about finances as my father’s medical expenses rise. What can I do? Does my mum who has dementia qualify for an LPA? Can someone living with dementia write a will? Do you have some tips to prevent financial abuse? In the second episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Mr Yue-En Chong answer questions related to finances and legal planning.

Financial Schemes

Professional Deputy Registration Form

Legal Aid Bureau

Resources From Office Of The Public Guardian

Lasting Power Of Attorney
Certificate Issuers
Court-Appointed Deputy

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Episode 3: Living With Dementia (Communication)

What are the changes that dementia brings that may impact on communication? What are some words to avoid? Does talking speed, words you use and body language matter when speaking to a person living with dementia? In the third episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Ms Michelle Ong and Mr Anjang Rosli answer questions related to communicating with person living with dementia.

Knowing Dementia

Helping Children Understand Dementia

Be A Dementia Friend — Dementia-Friendly Singapore

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Episode 4: Living With Dementia (Daily Activities)

How can I engage my loved one to keep them mentally active? Can my loved one continue what they love to do? My father is unable to shower by himself. How can I help yet respecting his privacy? My mother often leaves the house by herself. What resources can I use if she wanders? In the fourth episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Ms Low Mui Lang answer questions related to managing the daily activities for person living with dementia (PLWD).

Activities Of Daily Living

Caregivers Guide For PLWD Who Wander

Care.Cook.Inspire Cookbook

HAD Activity Booklet 2 — My Home

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Episode 5: Living With Dementia (Changes In Behaviour)

Why do people living with dementia have changes in their behaviour? What can the caregiver do to deal with all these changes? I suspect my mother has dementia but she refuses to visit the doctor. My father refuses to take his medication. What should I do? In the fifth episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Dr Ng Wai Chong answer questions related to managing the behaviour changes of person living with dementia.

How To Address Aggression

How To Address Wandering Behaviour

Mind Matters Resource Directory Listings

Understanding Dementia e-Learning

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Episode 6: Living With Dementia (Self-Care For Caregivers)

What are the signs of caregiver stress? I am not comfortable discussing my challenges with family and friends. Who else can I talk to? I need a break from caregiving but I feel guilty. What should I do? In the last episode of our 6-part series “All About Dementia – Ask the Experts”, Ms Sharon Gan & Mr Richard Ashworth answer questions related to self-care for caregivers.

Mind Matters Resource Directory Listings

Caring For Yourself

Caregiving Resources for Dementia

Care professionals and service partners who wish to adapt the consolidated listing may reach out to ccmh@aic.sg.

Top 5 Dementia Resources

Supporting your caregiving journey

Top 5 Dementia Resources

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Dementia Listing

Download the listing to get a full list of resources to support you in your caregiving journey.

Dementia Listing

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Resources To Download

Living with Dementia - Knowing Dementia

A comprehensive guide to caregiving for persons with dementia, arranged in 4 parts to help caregivers along in their journey.

Living with Dementia - Knowing Dementia

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Living with Dementia - Caring for Yourself

A comprehensive guide to caregiving for persons with dementia, arranged in 4 parts to help caregivers along in their journey.

Living with Dementia - Caring for Yourself

English Chinese Malay Tamil

Living With Dementia - Planning Care

A comprehensive guide to caregiving for persons with dementia, arranged in 4 parts to help caregivers along in their journey.

Living With Dementia - Planning Care

English Chinese Malay Tamil

Living with Dementia - Providing Care

A comprehensive guide to caregiving for persons with dementia, arranged in 4 parts to help caregivers along in their journey.

Living with Dementia - Providing Care

English Chinese Malay Tamil

Directory Listing of Dementia Caregiver Support Services

Download the listing for dementia caregiver support services and respite services to help you along your journey.

Directory Listing of Dementia Caregiver Support Services

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Remembering For The Two Of Us

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Remembering For The Two Of Us

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Let's Build a Caring and Dementia-Friendly Singapore Together!

Did you know that by 2030, over 152,000 people in Singapore are projected to live with dementia? Download the DFSG accordion card to learn about dementia and how you can play a part to support persons living with dementia and their caregivers.

Let's Build a Caring and Dementia-Friendly Singapore Together!

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Lend a Helping Hand, Be a Dementia Friend

The Dementia-Friendly Singapore (DFSG) initiative
aims to build a caring and inclusive society to support persons living with dementia to age in place. Download the DFSG brochure to find out how you can become a Dementia Friend and play a part!

Lend a Helping Hand, Be a Dementia Friend

English Chinese Malay Tamil

Dementia Tips In Caring For Persons With Dementia

A compilation of infographics developed during COVID to support caregivers

Dementia Tips In Caring For Persons With Dementia

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Publications

Six Principles of Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhood

By Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)This document outlines some guiding principles and features that are useful for making outdoor spaces and environments more friendly and welcoming to people living with dementia in the community.

Six Principles of Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhood

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Elderly-and-Dementia-Inclusive Environment Guide

An AIC-NYP Collaboration.

Elderly-and-Dementia-Inclusive Environment Guide

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Looking to the Future

This guide serves as an update and expansion of the 2016 “Looking to the Future – Designing and Managing Residential Facilities for People with Dementia”. Through this guide, we aim to empower community care organisations on enhancing environment with retro-fits and minor adaptations such as choice of furniture to optimise the dementia-friendliness of the environment to enable and support the person living with dementia.

Looking to the Future

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Dementia Colabs

This report by the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) captures the highlights from Dementia Colabs, which facilitated the meeting of minds of over 55 stakeholders, including 14 persons living with dementia and their caregivers. It includes insights from the conversation, identified pain-points and solution spaces as well as issue champions for each opportunity area.

Dementia Colabs

Report Executive Summary

More Resources

Dementia Eating and Communications

Food and nutrition section by Singapore General Hospital. Download

Word Puzzles on Dementia

For more puzzles, visit this Facebook page.

5 Ways to Reduce Risk of Dementia

Forget Us Not

Hack Care

HACK CARE is a catalogue of more than 240 pages of ideas to make your home a friendlier environment for you and your loved ones with dementia. It assembles practical hacks, surprising ideas, and simple tips and tricks to simplify your life as you cope with the daily challenges of caregiving, while transforming them into meaningful and enriching moments. Download

Videos

Learn More

Here are more resources about dementia

e-Learning on Dementia and Mental Health

DementiaHub.SG

Singapore’s first one-stop resource portal on dementia, co-developed by Agency for Integrated Care and Dementia Singapore, aims to raise awareness about the condition and support persons living with dementia and their caregivers in the community.

This knowledge hub is designed for members of the community and corporations, persons living with dementia, caregivers and care professionals. You can find credible, comprehensive and up-to-date information and resources on dementia including engaging persons living with dementia, self-care, caregiving tips, services, and many more!

Visit www.dementiahub.sg.

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