A Treasure Chest of Tips: to help you to keep living as well as you can
From people with dementia, for people with dementia
Are you living with a diagnosis of dementia, or think you may have it?
If you want to learn from and share with others ‘in the same boat’, you’re in the right place!
The Tip-Share website is bursting with Tips, work-arounds and short cuts. All from people with dementia themselves. And these will grow and grow.
The website aims to be clear, easy to use, searchable and informative. We’d love you to use it, contribute – and even become a Tip-Sharer yourself!
Here are a few examples of some of our Tips…
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Ready to get going?
You can go to the ‘Our Tips’ page to look through all the topics we have covered so far. Or if you have a specific issue that you’d like to find a Tip for, try using the search box below…
Finding your way around the site…
We have tried to make this website as accessible as possible. You can increase the size of the words, or if you prefer, you can listen instead of reading (click on tabs at top right of any page). To get back to the Home Page, just click on the Back to Home arrow at the top left of the pages, and to get back to the top of the page, just click on the box at the bottom right of the page.
We need to know which Tips people are finding most useful. So, if you like a Tip, please click on the ‘Like this Tip’ icon.
Our Tips
This is where you will find all sorts of Tips which we hope can help you live with your dementia more easily. There is a whole range of topics covered, such as ‘Tips for Life at Home’, ‘Tips for Money and Legal Matters’, ‘Tips for Connecting and Communication’… and many more. There are even Tips for coping with the Coronavirus situation.
Share a Tip
We’re sure that many of you out there will have lots more great Tips and examples of things you do to manage your day-to-day life more easily. Use this page to tell us about them so we can add them to the site.
Contributing will really make a difference to how Tip-Share grows and helps others. So we really hope you’ll join in, get involved and become part of the Tip-Sharer community.
Ask for a Tip
If you aren’t able to find a ‘Tip’ on the site that relates to the specific issue you are looking for, then the Tip-Share Community may be able to help. Just give us the details which we will pass on to our Tip-Sharers and wider resource team. Hopefully they will be able to highlight an existing solution or possibly even come up with a new idea or approach.
Meet the Tip-Sharers
Meet (and hopefully join) our ever-expanding community of people who contribute Tips, work-arounds and short-cuts. These can help to make a real positive difference in the lives of those of us who live with dementia.
Listen Button Instructions
The Listen Button lets you listen instead of reading (just click on the button at the top right of any page). You can find out more about this function by clicking here.
Expand Text Option
By clicking on one of the three letter A’s that appear at the top of each page you are able to increase (or decrease) the size of the text on any page.
The content of this website is solely and intentionally made up of Tips shared by people with dementia themselves. Innovations in Dementia is not able to take any responsibility for these, or to give ‘professional’ advice, information or sign-posting ourselves.
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Dementia Tip-Share is supported and hosted by Innovations in Dementia.
It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Dementia Voices has developed a number of websites to support the dementia community.
You can view the other sites here...
For any other general enquiries contact us at tips@myid.org.uk
Dementia Tip-Share is supported and hosted by Innovations in Dementia.
It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.