Pictures to Share create specialised books with large pictures for people with dementia
Following her mother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia and witnessing the communication problems these debilitating illnesses had raised between members of her family and her mother, Helen J Bate started up the social enterprise publishing company Pictures to Share producing ‘normal’ coffee table books with lots of pictures and a small amount of text such as a poem or a quotation. The pictures are clear and relevant and the text is large and easy to read without being patronising.
The Pictures to Share books can be bought direct from www.picturestoshare.co.uk, by phoning 01829 770024 for a brochure, or they can often be ordered from your local library.
- A room with a view - Surroundings
- Are you sitting comfortably - Physical comfort
- Cleanliness is next to godliness - hygeine
- Food glorious food - Appetising food
- Getting to know you - Communication
- It's childsplay - All about children
- Let me entertain you - Coping with boredom
- Pleased to meet you - The welcome
- Relatively speaking - Relatives and carers
- The waiting game - Waiting rooms
- There's no place like home - Going home
- Trumpet voluntary - All about volunteers
- A death in the family - Empathy and compassion
- Long Term Care - The long and winding road
- Mobility - Getting there