Resources

A Guide To Asking Your MSP or Councillor – and other people – for support

Published 2019. Sometimes things in our community don’t work as well as they should, or we can see a gap in services that people need. In our Local People Linking project we have been talking with people about what issues affect them. All of the people we spoke to said that they wanted to make things better in their local communities, but lots of people didn’t know who to contact.

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Human Rights – How To Run Your Own Training Session

Published 2019. By working with different community groups, we learned how to run successful learning sessions about human rights. We are sharing what we did so people can hold similar sessions in their communities.

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Sensory Changes and Dementia: Sense of Taste and Smell

Published 2018. When you are living with dementia, sometimes your sense of taste and/or smell can change. This booklet has been created alongside people who live with dementia and offers advice and information.

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Mums Returning to Work Guide

Published 2018. This guide outlines some of the issues women are facing in their return to work. It gives information about support networks and shares some of their experiences – which we hope will give some emotional and practical reassurance to other women in these circumstances.

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Tips for Older Vegetarians and Vegans

Published 2017. Many people find that the food they want to eat changes as they get older, or they want to have easier ways of cooking. If you are a vegetarian or vegan it can be harder to get information and advice that is helpful for your situation. With the help of people living with dementia and their families our Food Buddies project has put together a practical set of tips that make life easier.

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Finding friends and coping with loneliness

Published 2017. We produced this booklet as part of our Angus McFlourish project where we are working with people from Angus Voice looking at ways of prevention social isolation and loneliness.

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