Resources

This tool from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration helps a carer keep an up-to-date source of information that can help hospital staff tailor care for your loved one. It is designed on the principles of person-centred care, which values each person as an individual.

The Dementia Training Australia Environment Activity Cards aim to spark conversations among staff, residents and visitors about residential aged care and retirement living buildings.

This tool provides access to information about dementia for primary health care professionals. Sections include awareness and recognition of symptoms, GP assessment and management, practice nurse assessment and care planning, medicolegal issues, medication, ongoing management and care, palliative and end-of-life care, and family support.

People diagnosed with dementia, their care partners, and family and friends can find it hard to come to terms with a dementia diagnosis This tool from Queensland Health provides an algorithm to guide the care GPs provide to a person once they have received a diagnosis of dementia.

A Life Story book can be used as a tool to help facilitate person-centred care. It enables caregivers to engage and communicate with a person living with dementia, understand their unique needs, and provide meaningful interaction based on the person’s likes and dislikes and personal history. This resource is from Alzheimer's WA.

Top tips and key quotes from the Forward with Dementia expert panel at a webinar titled 'Navigating the System: Finding supports after a dementia diagnosis'.

STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment) are explicit criteria that facilitate medication review in multi-morbid older people in most clinical settings (Admin time: Highly operator dependent - 5 mins for an expert, up to 20-30 mins).

A tool from NPS MedicineWise to facilitate multidisciplinary review of antipsychotic medicines prescribed for patients experiencing changed behaviour, including advice on how and when to taper.

Designed by Dementia Training Australia, the Quick Reference Cards are designed as an on-the-spot point of reference for health professionals and care staff working with people with dementia, to help address responsive behaviours.

You are in control of who you tell about your dementia, when you tell them, and how (and how much) you tell. This worksheet from Forward with Dementia helps you figure out how and when to share your diagnosis with family and friends.