Resources

Planning ahead is thinking about your future, and putting things in place so that your choices will be known and acted on if you cannot express these choices yourself later in life. Start2Talk provides resources to encourage conversations about care planning.

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.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will understand some of the issues older people have with their sleep, learn about the association between sleep and dementia and uncover ways that nurses and care workers can optimise sleep for those living in aged care.

If you’re thinking of prescribing these medicines to manage the behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia, follow these 6 steps. This resource is from The Australian Government Department of Health, and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commision. 

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.

Dementia causes a progressive decline in a person’s functioning and affects a person’s thinking, behaviour and ability to perform everyday tasks. This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides an overview of services to support people with dementia and their carers.

This poster from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care outlines four important actions in providing safe, high-quality care for people with cognitive impairment in hospital during COVID-19.

Ron's wife, Diana, had dementia. As her carer, Ron struggled with facilitating the choices his wife wanted to make that he was unsure of. This video is from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. (4 min)

This article from InPsych provides information about psychological assessment of dementia, includes information about types of dementia, course and stages of dementia, differential diagnosis, dementia screening instruments, and roles for psychologists.

This sheet from the National Institute for Dementia Research provides guidance to government, researchers, industry and philanthropy on Australia's dementia research strategy and activity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over the longer term.