Resources

This booklet from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre and HammondCare provides information to help people living with dementia, and those providing them support, to make better and more informed choices about reablement programs that could maintain or improve function and quality of life.

This booklet from the Australian Government Department of Health provides information for families and carers looking for specialised dementia care support services. The booklet includes an overview of program eligibility and referral requirements and where to go to for further dementia support.

This booklet from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration, La Trobe University, and the Queensland University of Technology,  aims to increase understanding about sexuality, what it means and how and why it might still be important to people living in residential aged care.

An Australian guidebook from the Prince of Wales Hospital Aged Care Psychiatry Service for facilitators to introduce Australian content into cognitive stimulation therapy sessions.

This manual from the Queensland University of Technology has been designed to assist primary carers to prepare resources to enable clear communication about their family member’s unique care needs.

This guide from the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre is for family carers providing care for a person with dementia. It includes practical information about how to deal with the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

If you have been diagnosed with dementia, this help sheet from Dementia Australia may be useful. It makes suggestions about planning for the future. It also tells you who can assist you to do this.

This booklet from the Older Persons Advocacy Network equips you with the ability to have an informed and active role in your decisions about what medications you take. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).