Resources

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides ideas to help your First Nations family member feel more at home in aged care and keep connection with family, community and country.

This help sheet from Dementia Australia lists some of the important aspects of good care for people with dementia who are living in residential aged care homes, including the involvement of relatives and friends.

Physical activity is any movement made by skeletal muscles in your body that uses energy. This includes any incidental activity you might do during the day like doing the housework, and any planned physical activity, like exercise. This sheet from the University of Melbourne contains practical tips on beneficial activity levels, how to stay motivated, and key information sources.

This helpsheet from the Dementia Centre and HammondCare provides information about the use of floor-mounted wayfinding signage for people with dementia living in residential care.

This information from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration, Brisbane Airport, and The Australian Government provides guidance through the Brisbane Airport’s international terminal for people living with dementia and their travel companions.

These facts are based on rigorous evidence from academic literature and the knowledge and experience of the Empowered experts comprising psychiatrists, geriatricians, social workers, pharmacists, scientists, dementia advocates and people with dementia and their carers.

This pamphlet from the Empowered Project provides information about changed behaviour, drug treatment, and consent.

Information regarding driving and dementia from Alzheimer's WA, including keeping safe while still driving, how to assess driving capacity, starting conversations about driving, and alternatives to driving.

This guide from the NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group Inc. provides deprescribing information that can be applied to written and/or verbal communication (in the form of “preferred language”) between clinicians, patients and/or carers. Adapt appropriately for individual patients.

This Pamphlet from Queensland Health provides contact information and guidance for specific specialties which a person living with dementia may want to consider reaching out to.