Resources

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia looks at four common difficulties with using the toilet for people with dementia — and suggests ideas to offer support.

The posters from Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and the Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service, Northern Territory provide clinicians and health professionals working with Aboriginal communities in remote areas with a hard copy resource that can be left in the community after the visit.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore how dementia impacts the physiology of the brain and its effects on an individual’s ability to perform activities of daily living.

This module from Dementia Training Australia provides a brief overview of person-centred care and three theoretical models to help put the focus on the person with dementia.

These sections from Forward with Dementia contain information, tools and helpful strategies used by people with dementia.

This short film from Dementia Australia has been produced to provide information to carers of people living with dementia in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. The film features Birpai Elder, Uncle Bill O'Brien, discussing his experience of caring for his mother who had dementia. (4 min)

This webinar from NPS MedicineWise focuses on the impact of transitions of care on changed behaviours among people with dementia and the role of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines (*please note you must be logged in as a NPS MedicineWise member (free) to watch webinars). 

Who cares is a short animated video from Carers NT that shows the roles of a carer and the support available for carers (Available in English and Yolngu Matha). (5 min)

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, general practitioner, Dr Dimity Pond talks about the different professionals who can have a role in prompting planning ahead within the course of their client interactions. (2 min)

This webpage from Alzheimer's WA provides information on Alzheimer's disease, the difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia, symptoms, stages, diagnosis, treatment options, and risk factors.