Each individual living with dementia is distinctive and so is the circumstance he is living in. Some of them are part of their family or may be living with one family member however few are who live alone with such disease. And reason for living alone could be persons personal decision or may be a situation alone. Be whatever the reason for it, its challenging for their loved ones to leave person with dementia living alone.

Now the help you need to give such people entirely depends on their current situation. They would need assistance if they:

Do not remember to take a meal or medicines.
Are not changing their clothes or taking bath on regular basis.
Tend to forget about the potential critical situations like fire.
Dont know whom should they let in the house and who dont.
Are having fake suspicions about the people living around the house causing difficulty for neighbors and police.
Have forgotten to give food to their pets.

Out of the listed circumstances, few of them can be easily handled. For example, if the person tends to forget his meals, you can arrange a meal for him through phone at his door steps and then either make a call to that person or have anyone meet him personally to remind to have his meal. While sometimes, situation may not be that easy and you might compromise on persons security, at these times you need to think of more logical way to handle it in a wise way.

Where to begin from

There are dementias institutions where they have experts who can suggest you the best possible workout for people with such disease are finding hard to love alone. They can provide you with suitable solution as per your needs and also help in arranging or may be referring to right communities for them.

How a care taker can help in such situations.

Acknowledge that there is a risk.

There is always a risk in dementia person living on their own. But this factor should be judged by the person with disease alone. The family members must keep a regular check including professional assistance to see if they are still able to manage things on their own.

Familys participation

There could be more family members wishing to participate in taking care of their loved ones in long term. They must sit and held meetings and decide at early stages who is going to cater which needs of affected member and who can provide what type of help in future.

Giving them their independence

Now this could be rails running towards their bathroom, toilet. They should have access to easily readable wall clocks including calendar with large fonts. An alarm clock which they think is easy to operate and reminders for their medicines and meals.

Handling financial decision

As the dementia evolve by the time, their ability in making legal or finance decision decreases. You must help them with such decisions though still making them part of those decisions.

Keeping other people informed

If people around you know your familys member situation, they can help you in times when they get missing. You must ensure he is carrying identification with a working phone to reach him in such emergency situations.