Free resources Archives - Mycarematters Trading https://mycarematters.org/product-category/free_resources/ Products and services to improve people's experience of care. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:51:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mycarematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-MCM-Favicon-32x32.png Free resources Archives - Mycarematters Trading https://mycarematters.org/product-category/free_resources/ 32 32 Timelines by After Cloud https://mycarematters.org/store/laterlife/timelines-by-after-cloud/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:12:53 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=6476 Timelines is a mobile app to capture life story work and provide a chronological multimedia representation of a person’s history.

Click here to create an account and access a free trial.

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upload images or photos and record in-app videos, to provide a detailed understanding of a person’s history.

Timelines assists authorities, providers, practitioners and carers to:
• Build the person’s sense of identity
• Enable the person to share their past with carers
• Provide a realistic account of early events to improve cognitive recall for PLWD
• Provide a link with the past and present
• Enable a better understanding of the individual
• Enhance self-esteem and resilience
• Assist to develop a biographical history
• Help promote a person centred approach to care

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]]> Moments by After Cloud https://mycarematters.org/store/laterlife/moments-by-after-cloud/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:46:03 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=6472 Moments is a secure, award-winning, mobile app for capturing life’s moments. It is a place to store memories, thoughts, and essential information that users can share privately and securely.

The app has been designed as a digital inclusion tool that can be used independently or within community group settings, to improve quality of life, independent living, health management, help to reduce social isolation and loneliness and to also improve the mental health and well-being of users.

Click here to create an account and access a free trial.

 

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]]> Moments enables users (or their companion) to share multimedia content (audio, images, letters, and video) to convey anything they wish to, privately and securely. The app is utilised for digital journaling and activity updates within services that support life enrichment and health and wellbeing improvements. Users can also uniquely post moments to a future date.

A user can save and share their personal stories in a digital memory vault. This can include photos, letters, voice and audio recordings and videos. For example:
• A video showing activity or best practice to stakeholders.
• Audio message reminders.
• Share photos with audio explanations of who is who.
• A letter for a partner, including photos and videos you wish to share.
• A message to someone the user cares about, saying something that they have always wanted to say.

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]]> Treasury of arts activities for older people, vol 2 https://mycarematters.org/store/free_resources/treasury-of-arts-activities-for-older-people-vol-2/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 09:24:26 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=5953 A second volume of the hugely popular Treasury, this time with 52 creative activities, one for each week of the year. Designed for everyone who would like to bring more art and creativity into the work they do with older people.

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]]> If you are an activity coordinator in a care home, a dementia café volunteer, a domiciliary carer, or work in a day centre – or even a friend or family member, then this could well be the resource for you!

With 52 accessible, creative activities (one for each week of the year), this 2nd volume of the popular Treasury of Arts Activities is designed for everyone who would like to bring more art and creativity into the work they do with older people.

We hope it will provide ideas and inspiration that will enable you to develop your own creative practice and introduce new and exciting things to the older people that you support.

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]]> Arts and Culture in every care home? NAPA Consultation Report https://mycarematters.org/store/free_resources/arts-and-culture-in-every-care-home-napa-consultation-report/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:37:42 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=5958 NAPA led on a consultation with the care sector about arts and culture. The question they posed was:

What would it require for all care homes in England to offer their residents access to relevant creative and cultural opportunities on a daily basis?

The Baring Foundation

The final report, published in September 2021, summarises their findings.

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]]> Dignified Dining Solutions Guide https://mycarematters.org/store/free_resources/dignified-dining-solutions-guide/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:45:38 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=5755 This fabulous guide provides innovative solutions and suggestions to help you offer a more enriched dining experience for all.
Created by expert Jo Bonser, MD of Health Care Services UK, who encouraged her own Mum to eat better again using simple ideas that made mealtimes pleasurable for both of them.

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]]> Looking after yourself https://mycarematters.org/store/free_resources/looking-after-yourself/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:14:55 +0000 https://mycarematters.org/?post_type=product&p=5748 This booklet has been written by carers for carers in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland and The National Dementia Carer's Action Network NDCAN with funding from Life Changes Trust.

The advice is warm, empathetic and reassuring with a focus on being kind to yourself and not comparing yourself to others.

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]]> Dementia and Sensory Challenges https://mycarematters.org/store/posters-prints-books/dementia-and-sensory-challenges/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:47:00 +0000 https://30ninenet.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=5312 This booklet was inspired by and created with the words of people with dementia to give readers ideas on how to make the lives of people with dementia more pleasant, allowing them to be more socially included and no longer feeling alone.  The booklet was created with funding support from the Life Changes Trust.

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]]> Mental Capacity Act – A Carer’s Guide https://mycarematters.org/store/posters-prints-books/mental-capacity-act-a-carers-guide/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:12:11 +0000 https://www.carechartsuk.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=4437  

This Guide contains advice and support for carers in supporting those they are caring for to make decisions, or when they have to make decisions on their behalf, and gives useful information on when and how to get support and when to involve other people as well as on ‘best interest’ decisions and Lasting Power of Attorney.

Anticipated changes to the Mental Capacity Act have been delayed to October 2025.

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]]> We were delighted to be invited by SITRA to collaborate, together with Carers Trust, on a Guide to the Mental Capacity Act, funded by the Department of Health.

It has been specifically designed to support carers of people with dementia and was shaped by input from individual carers, carers groups, professionals and specialist support groups.

The Guide contains advice and support for carers in supporting those they are caring for to make decisions, or when they have to make decisions on their behalf, and gives useful information on when and how to get support and when to involve other people as well as on ‘best interest’ decisions and Lasting Power of Attorney.

It also contains a diary section to record key decisions or events.

“Wonderfully laid out for harassed carers to quickly navigate through.” Family carer

“I have found it such a useful tool to give to care workers as part of their MCA training.” Healthcare trainer

Currently available as a PDF, free to download.

Should you wish to place a bulk order for printed booklets please email enquiries@carechartsuk.co.uk .or call 01403 210485.

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