Support and individual guidance are basic tools when it comes to bringing about changes and enhancing personal and family progress in coping with care for relatives with dementia. This is because these components make it possible to bring about an impact on day-to-day aspects, to provide guidance in natural contexts and to offer support for carers in the process, helping to gain an acquaintance of said care process while generating the changes of perspective needed to live with the disease. This line of work lies far beyond diagnosis and treatment since it seeks to keep up with the coping strategy faced by the relative in the personal circumstances of providing care during the highly complex, disturbing pathological process that is dementia.
The work of the referred professional in this process, in this case from the field of social work, constitutes a source of basic help which should deliver a specific, planned strategy in said process, supporting development, and personal and family progress, according to the moment and the circumstance.