We can sometimes think that supporting and caring for someone with dementia requires a lot of ‘doing for’ them. It may be, that the person with dementia requires some assistance with some tasks, but there can be a tendency to ‘over do’ for the person. This ‘over doing’ not only creates pressure for yourself, but it can dis-enable and undermine the person’s capacity to do for themselves and to contribute to the relationship, house hold and / or community.