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The Carer's Information and Support Programme also known as CrISP is for friends and families
of people living with dementia so that they can have the right tools for supporting the
person that they care for as there dementia progresses. So the idea of CrISP is that carers
come to it not knowing much about dementia feeling quite afraid and leave feeling like
they, it's not quite such a scary thing anymore they know what they need to do, they know
where they can get support and they have make links with people so that they are not alone
anymore. It gives people a sense of community and a sense of, that its manageable and you
can live well with it. It's usually four workshops most often over four weeks and the idea is
that in those workshops carers of people living with sort of mild dementia or who have had
a recent, recently the person has been diagnosed with dementia, come along to them to find
out more about dementia and to get information that will allow them to sort of plan in advance
and understand the changes and that their lives might change for the person that they
support might change and with relationships as well so that they can have the tools that
they need to provide care. In the first week everyone comes in and they are a bit unsure
of what's going on what's going to happen and then they gradually get to know each other
and understand how workshops are designed and how they work and they relax and they
start talking to each other and they notice the similarities in their experiences and
by the end, the last session, they are chatting and it's a completely different atmosphere
which is lovely, it's really nice to see.