Your care plan

If you are diagnosed with dementia, your future health and social care needs will be assessed and a care plan will be drawn up. A care plan is a way of ensuring you receive the right treatment for your needs.

Examples of questions that could come up while drawing up your care plan are listed below.

• What support do you or your carer need for you to remain as independent as possible?
• Are there any changes that need to be made to your home to make it easier to live in?
• Do you want ot attend a memory group to help your memory?
• What information do you need about the illness and benefits?
• Is there any medicines that will help? If there are, you should be given information about them and asked if you need help in taking them. It will also be discuseed how the effects of the medicines will be monitored.

This is your care plan so ask as many questions as you want and make sure that your wishes are known.

Want to know more?

• Your health, your way: What is a care plan?