Dementia aids are required by a person suffering from dementia in order to restore some structure and order into his life of confusion and forgetfulness. Some of the main symptoms of dementia include loss of memory, mental haze and confusion, inability to recognize people or remember meal times or bath times or wandering about aimlessly and other such things.

Usually it is the short term memory that gets affected whereas the person can remember incidents that had taken place 10 years back. One of the commonest instances of short term memory loss is asking for supper just after taking supper, because it has completely passed out of his mind.

So he requires dementia aids like memory aids to ease out his life.

He will find it easier to cope with loss of memory if you give him personalized memory joggers like instruction sheets, handy lists, message boards, day of the week clocks and other such aids. You can also do a search in the internet for useful dementia aids that have lately arrived in the market.

Always make it a point to keep objects that he recognizes in their usual places instead of removing them. He will find it easier to seek them out.

In a place that is prominent, put up an attention grabbing message board and inculcate a habit in the afflicted person of taking its help to remember things.

Always show him photographs of relatives and friends with their names written clearly beneath. Or better still post these pictures on a wall album on a prominent wall in the house where he can see them everyday and make him learn the names written beneath.