Resources

This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care serves as a guide for service providers to carry out an effective patient centred and goal oriented care plan.

A resource designed to support services to implement effective restorative care and reablement for people living at home with dementia.

This video from Opal HealthCare shares Darrieux’s experience of receiving cardiac rehabilitation as part of aged care. (2 min)

This Learner Guide from the Queensland Government has been developed specifically for Allied Health Assistants to provide the necessary knowledge and foster the skills required to work with clients to support rehabilitation within the community.

This article discusses the history and evolution of reablement programs in Australia.

This short video from italk studios seeks to inform Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities about caring for family members who have dementia. Through the story of Peter and Janey, information is presented about what dementia is, the symptoms, and providing support to people who have dementia. (6 min)

This guide from the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of New South Wales, and HammondCare has information about the meaning of wellness and many handy strategies to help you improve your wellness and increase your resilience.

Information from NPS MedicineWise regarding advance care planning including decision making, preventing and helping with distress, treating the cognitive symptoms of dementia, other conditions with dementia, good medicines management, questions to ask your doctor, and support and care.

In this webinar from the Older Persons Advocacy Network, the panel covers what dementia is, living with dementia in Australia, the support organisations, impacts and challenges for people living with dementia, their carers, families, and friends during COVID-19, and initiatives, learnings and approaches. (1 h 4 m)

Planning ahead with people who have dementia is important. At some point, they will no longer be able to make informed decisions – and that’s where a trusted carer can step in to help. This video is from Dementia Australia. (3 min)