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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