Resources

This webpage is for people with dementia, carers, and health professionals. It provides information, helpful strategies, and tools to improve communication of the dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic support. 

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.

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 booklet from Dementia Australia features information, tips and strategies on staying connected to people living with dementia. 

This webinar from Dementia Training Australia focuses on how we can support residents to personalise their bedroom and have a richer dining experience (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources). (43 min)

This webinar from Dementia Training Australia introduces ways of supporting residents and staff to personalise indoor and outdoor spaces, and focus on specific day-to-day activities, such as having a richer dining experience. (30 min)

This report from NSW Health describes the characteristics, prevalence and current health service use of people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Exercise can help to improve or maintain memory, thinking, and the daily function of people with dementia. This webpage from Forward with Dementia provides information about the benefits of exercise and tips for people living with dementia.

This guideline from the University of Sydney, the NHMRC Partnership Centre, and Bruyère Research Institute aims to provide guidance on who is suitable to continue and who is suitable to trial deprescribing (likely to benefit or not experience harm from withdrawal) of certain medications (ChEIs and/or memantine).

In this webinar from the Older Person's Advocacy Network, meet the creators of 'Everybody’s Oma', a personal story about one family’s dementia journey. During lockdown, Jason van Genderen’s playful video experiments helped his mother, Hendrika, make sense of her home isolation. (57 min)