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  Abbey Pain Scale Accounts Activities Admin Advance Care Planning Advance Decision Advance Directive Advance Statement Advice/support Age disorientation Air mattress Alcohol Alexa Anticipatory Care Planning Anxiolytics Appetite (poor) Aricept Asking to go home Attendance Allowance (UK)   Balloons Bank accounts Bathroom aids Bathroom lock Bed aid / bed rail Bed (getting in/out) Bed cot sides Behaviour (general) Behaviour (effects of dementia on) Behaviour (interpreting) Behaviour (medication) Behaviour themes Bereavement (supporting others) Bereavement (you) Bin collection Birdfeeder Biting on cutlery Biting the toothbrush Blister packs Blood oxygen Body temperature Bottle unscrewing aids   Call diversion Cannabis (avoid) Capabilities Car (getting in/out) Car cushion (rotating) Car transfer aids Carbon monoxide (CO) alarms Care chairs Care Inspectorate Wales Care Inspectorate Care plans Care Quality Commission Carers (visiting) Carer's Allowance (UK) Carer's Credit (UK) Catheter (internal, not for incontinence) Catheter (urinary retention) Causes of dementia Chairs (care) Chemical cosh Chewing pills Chiropodist / Podiatrist Cigarettes Clothes (general) Clothes labelling CO alarms Cognitive assessment Collecting things Commode Community Mental Health Nurse Community Nurse / District Nurse Community Psychiatric Nurse (PSN) Constipation Contact us Continence Nurse / Continence Adviser Contingency planning Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) Cot sides (bed) Coughing from drinking or eating Council Tax (GB) Covid CQC Cracked or chapped lips Crash mat CSDD Cups (special) Cushions (pressure)   Day centres Day/night clocks Dehydration (general) Dehydration (checking for) Dementia (about) Dementia medicines Dementia test Dentist Depression assessment Diabetes medicines Diabetes tests Diarrhoea Diet Dietician Disinfection (hands) Disinfection (surfaces) Disinfection (vomit/diarrhoea) Disorientation (age) Disorientation (place or situation) Disorientation (time) District Nurse / Community Nurse DNACPR DNAR DNR Dog walking Donepezil Door chain Doorbell / intercom Dosage (medicines) Dosette box Drawing Drink (general) Drink (access to) Drinking (assisting) Drinking aids Drop In calls Dry mouth / lips / tongue Dustbin collection DVDs Dysphagia   Earwax Eating (assisting) Eating aids Ebixa Echo Effects of dementia (behaviour) Effects of dementia (physical) Electric cooker Electric heaters Emergency call systems Emergency care and treatment plan Emergency/contingency planning Emotional mirroring Entertainment Equipment Equipment loan, grants, hire Exelon Exercise Eye test   Fall alarms Falls (preventing) FAST stroke test Fingernail care Fire alarms Flame Safety Device (FSD) Flexible working (UK) Flu Fluorescent bulbs Following round Food (general) Food shopping Food temperature Fresh air Fridge (mini) FSD   Galantamine Gas cooker Gastroenteritis General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) Gifts Gliclazide GP (General Practitioner) GPCOG GPS trackers Grab rails Grants (adaptations/repairs)   Haemorrhagic stroke Hair care Hairdressers (mobile) Hand disinfection Handy Handle Handyman/repair HbA1C Health (preventing problems) Hearing difficulties Hearing test Heaters (electric) Heel cushion Help (enlisting) Help (support) Help with pets Helpers (vetted) Helpers (visiting) Helpful techniques Herbal remedies Hiding things Hoists Home adaptations Hospital bag Hot drinks Hypnotics   Ice IDDSI Incontinence Infection spread (preventing) Instructions Intercom / doorbell Ischaemic stroke   Junk mail / phone   Kettle tipper Key safe   Labels Landline phones Laxatives (thickening) Laxido (thickening) Leads / cables Leg pillow Lifting cushion Lifting someone Light bulbs Light (motion sensor/PIR) Light (outside, sensor/PIR) Light switches Lighting Lighting (bedbound) Lips (cracked / chapped) Lips (dry) Liquid medicines Living Will Lockable cooker valve Lorazepam Losing things Losing weight (appetite) Losing weight (nutrition)   Mashed food Mattress (air) Meals on Wheels / Meals at Home Medicine box Medicines (checking) Medicines (chewing pills) Medicines (common) Medicines (dementia) Medicines (diabetes) Medicines (dosage) Medicines (information sources) Medicines (liquid) Medicines (managing) Medicines (misinformation) Medicines (non-prescription) Medicines (side effects) Medicines (urgent changes) Memantine Memory Metformin Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) Mirroring (emotional) Mirrors MMSE Mobility Money (various themes) Mouth (dry) Movicol (thickening) Music Musical instruments   Nail care Napkin Noise Non-prescription medicines Norovirus Not recognising someone Nuisance phone calls Nutrition Nutritionist   Occupational Therapist (OT) Optician or Optometrist OT Outage alerts Outages (utility) Outside lighting Oximeter   Pain assessment Pain Assessment IN Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) PAINAD Painkillers Paracetamol Paving (slippery) Pendant alarms Personal alarms Personal Care Pets Pets (birdfeeder) Pharmacist Phone blockers Phone call diversion Phone headset Phone off the hook Phones (easy dialling) Phones (video) Photo books Photos (on wall) Photos (taking) Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Physiotherapist Pill crushers Pill dispensers Pill grinders PIR inside lights PIR outside lights Planning Podiatrist / Chiropodist POLST Power cuts Power cut lights Power of Attorney Practice Nurse Pressure cushions Pressure sores (preventing) Priority fault repair (landline) Priority Services Register PRN = as required Profiling bed PSN Pulse oximeter Pureed food   Radio Rates (NI) RCD Ready-meal deliveries Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority Reminyl Repair/handyman Repeating questions Residual Current Device (RCD) Resource (thickener) ReSPECT plan Restlessness Resuscitation plan (DNACPR / DNR / DNAR) Riser recliner chair Risk of dementia (how to reduce) Rivastigmine Room temperature Rotating car cushion Routine RQIA Rugs   Safety Salt (in food) SALT (Speech And Language Therapist) Sedatives Shopping (food) Shower aids Side effects Signs Skin care Sleeping Sleeping pills Slippers SLT Smoke alarms Social Worker Socket covers Socks Spare items Speech (loss of) Speech And Language Therapist (SALT or SLT) Stand aid hoist Standing aid frame Standing up (chair) Standing up (toilet) Straws (one-way) Stroke test Strokes (about) Strokes (preventing) Sundowning Supplements (nutritional) Support (getting) Supporting others' bereavement Support for your bereavement Surface disinfection   Talking buttons Talking clocks and watches Tap turners Teeth care Telecare / tele care Temperature (body) Temperature (ear) Temperature (room) Texture modified food Thick & Easy Thickeners (overview) Thickeners (issues with) TIA Time disorientation Time management Toenail care Toilet (standing up) Tongue (dry) Tooth care Toothbrush biting Toothbrush (special) Toothpaste Transfer aids Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) Travelling out Trips out (entertainment) TV TV channels TV remote controls TV (unsuitable, adverts)   Urinary retention Urinary Tract Infections (preventing) Urine test strips Useful links Utility outages UTIs (preventing)   VAT free Video calls Video intercom / doorbell Visiting carers Visits (entertainment) Visits (travelling) Vitamins Vomiting   Walking aids Wall items Washing (skin) Washing (towels, clothes) Weight loss (appetite) Weight loss (nutrition) Wheelchair Wind Windows Winter vomiting bug   Zopiclone