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These booklets should help you answer some of the questions you have about dementia.

Actions and Ideas to Help with Dementia
You can use this booklet to help you understand about dementia and what you can do to help people with it. (Canadian Resource)
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Understanding Stages of Dementia for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
An easy to read guide about the stages of dementia.
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FAQs for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Take a look at this booklet to see if you can get some answers for your questions. (Canadian Resource)
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Jenny’s Diary
This book was made for people with an intellectual disability to help them understand about dementia.
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Stand By Me
This is a plain language paper that talks about research with couples where one of them has dementia.
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Let’s Talk About Dementia
A booklet that is easy to understand and it talks about dementia.
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The NTG-EDSD. Information for Adults with an Intellectual Disability
A quick one pager that talks about why and how to use the NTG-EDSD tool
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Thinking Ahead: My Way, My Choice, My End of Life
This booklet can help guide decisions about what you want to happen at the end of your life
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Videos

These videos can help you figure out how dementia affects people and how you can communicate with them.

Four Ways to Connect with Kindness. You can watch this video and learn some ways to communicate with someone with dementia.

Supporting Derek – A short video that shows you a little bit about dementia.