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Browse resources created and collated by ARIIA as a trusted, evidence-based guide to supporting innovation across the aged care sector.

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Palliative care and dementia

Information from Dementia Australia about dementia, advance care planning, symptom management, personal comfort measures, supporting diverse groups of people, family carers, terminal care, grief and behavioural support.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Information Sheet
Pain and dementia

This sheet from Dementia Australia provides information about appropriate assessment and management of pain in people with dementia.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Video
Advance care planning: Advanced dementia

This video from NSW Trustee & Guardian covers how Advance Care Planning helps you to plan for future medical care and involves thinking about your values and beliefs and your wishes about what medical care you would like to have if you cannot make your own decision. (15 min)

Added 21 Jul 2022
e-Learning
Activities for the inpatient setting (module)

In this module from Dementia Training Australia, you will learn how to assess what is meaningful to the individual person with dementia and how engagement in such activities can reduce responsive behaviours and improve mood.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Webpage
Activities for people with dementia

Each day there are many things that provide us with purpose and pleasure. For a person with dementia, the need for a good quality of life is not diminished. This webpage from Dementia Australia provides guidance for planning appropriate activities for people living with dementia.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Report
Our solution: Quality care for people living with dementia

This report from Dementia Australia describes recommendations from people living with dementia and their families/carers regarding the new aged care quality standards.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Information Sheet
Other conditions with dementia: What to ask your doctor

This sheet from NPS MedicineWise outlines information about some conditions commonly experienced by people living with dementia, to help enable them and their family, friends and carers to be involved in decisions about management and support for these conditions.

Added 21 Jul 2022
Video
A consumer view on benefits of home-like models of residential aged care

This video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides an overview of what a home-like, or clustered model of aged care looks like and how it benefits residents. (1 min)

Added 21 Jul 2022
Webinar
Online symposium: Making person-centred care a reality

This symposium, hosted by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Dementia Training Australia, reflects on progress since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and safety, and added challenges of COVID-19 (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources). (5 h)  

Added 21 Jul 2022
Report
One day the support was gone: The mental health impact of COVID-19 on people living with dementia, their families and carers

This paper from Dementia Australia describes how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted/be impacting the physical, social, and mental well-being of people living with dementia, and their families/carers.

Added 21 Jul 2022