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A fact sheet providing information for aged care staff to improve services for Stolen Generations survivors.

A continuing professional development webinar featuring an interdisciplinary panel discussing how collaborative care may help support the mental health of older LGBTI people. Identifies specific needs and challenges and provides tips and strategies for responding to them.

This booklet for aged care staff covers a range of interventions that can be used to promote emotional wellbeing or to help people with anxiety or depression. These interventions are grouped by type, for example, physical activity interventions, and interventions to do with music and the arts.

An information resource on emotional wellbeing for older people living in residential care. It provides a framework to assist and facilitate discussion and staff development about improving older people’s emotional wellbeing.

Questions and activities for people to use to encourage someone in aged care to reminisce about their past experiences. 

The submission by the National Mental Health Commission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The National Mental Health Commission has a national remit to provide insight, advice and evidence on ways to continuously improve Australia’s mental health and suicide prevention systems, and act as a catalyst for change to achieve these improvements.

A submission to the Royal Commission that highlights current structural arrangements which impede the provision of timely and appropriate identification and treatment of mental health conditions in older Australians.

When a loved one moves into residential aged care, it's not unusual for there to be a difficult adjustment period. In this article, two experts give their advice on what to do if you suspect your loved one in aged care has depression.

The symptoms of anxiety in older people are sometimes not all that obvious as they often develop gradually and it can be hard to know how much is too much. This webpage describes the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression in older people.