Mental health in later life

What might affect your mental health in later life and what you can do to improve your mental health in later life.

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Mental capacity

The causes and potential consequences of a lack of mental capacity, and how you can plan ahead.

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Is it wrong to lie to a person with dementia?

We need to give much more consideration to the values we use when supporting and caring for people living with dementia, especially as they are a group that can be at high risk for developing wider mental health problems.

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Booklet about dementia for children and young people

This booklet explains how people with dementia might behave and feel, and provides young people with information about the illness and how to cope if someone they know has dementia. There are also a number of exercises in the booklet which make it ideal for use in the classroom, as part of a PSHE lesson.

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Dementia self-help project

We coordinate the formation, facilitation and evaluation of three self-help, peer-support groups for people with dementia (or suspected dementia) in extra care and sheltered housing schemes across London.

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