Resources

This information sheet from Beyond Blue provides tips and strategies for opening up a conversation with an older person experiencing anxiety, depression, or not coping.

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.

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.

This information from Alzheimer's WA is for people living with dementia regarding living well with dementia, the importance of staying connected, accepting support, processing the diagnosis, safety and independence, accessing support, and validating and acknowledging death.

There is a need for greater, targeted support for LGBTI people with dementia from all care contexts, requiring service providers to be better informed in the additional considerations relevant to the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in this group. The Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration provides multiple resources about the LGBTQIA+ community.

This sheet from Dementia Australia is designed to give you some basic information about Lewy body disease and its associated disorders. It will help you understand what is happening in the home that you are visiting. It also gives you some tips so that you can assist both the client and their carer.

This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches used for the Australian Government’s residential aged care program.

This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches for the Government’s Home Support and Care Program which comprises the Commonwealth Home Support Program, the Continuity of Support Program, and Home Care Packages Program.

This fact sheet from the Australian Government Department of Health is for families of people with dementia in residential aged care. It explains what they can do to help, including providing consent for medicines like benzodiazepines and antipsychotics.

This fact sheet provides a summary of aged care terms, descriptions and acronyms.