• Make sure they always have the means to contact you

• Have a designated person to check they have gone home at night

• Check to see if they have food in their home

• Make sure they have a warm, secure home they can go back to

• They have access to electricity and hot water

• They are clothed appropriately, including footwear for all weather conditions

• Their birthdays are remembered, celebrated with them however simple it may be

• They have access to an album of pictures they like looking at

• Check they are taking prescribed medication

• They are helped and supported to groom themselves (haircut, nails, toothbrush, soap)

• Help them attend the dentist/ opticians/chiropodist

• Make them their favourite food

• Help them access music they like to listen to

• Encourage hobbies they may have liked to do in the past

• Supporting them to visit their place of worship or spiritual place

• Revisit childhood/happy memories through stories – listen to them

• Support them to make graveyard visits, pay respects to past loved ones

• Support them to visit people they like who may be in hospital

• Help them clean their home, adding plants and natural light

• Give tokens of appreciation

• Stop people from calling them derogatory names, give them respect

• Include them as much as possible in family gatherings and events

• Support them to go on nature walks in parks, gardens, water features and farms

• Offer to sit with them, let them know they are loved and important to you.

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