Resources

General practitioners have a key role in providing quality primary care in terms of the identification, assessment, provision of information, referral and ongoing management. This article discusses the role of the GP in the diagnosis and management of people with dementia.

This article provides information about depression in dementia, including the clinical picture, assessment, management, and referral.

An article about identifying patients nearing the end of life and providing quality care.

Information about dementia including why we need to talk about dementia, what is dementia, signs and symptoms, normal ageing or dementia, stages of dementia, genetic risk factors, risk factors, delaying dementia and reducing risk, diagnosing dementia, history of dementia research.

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.

Guidelines which emphasise timely diagnosis; living well with dementia and delaying functional decline; managing symptoms through training staff in how to provide person-centred care and using non-pharmacological approaches in the first instance; and training and supporting families and carers to provide care.

Psychological illness is very common among people with dementia, and markedly more common than among older people without dementia. This article provides information about the role a psychologist can play when working with people living with dementia.

Proposal of a seven-tiered model of service delivery based on severity and prevalence of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

This position paper includes a rationale for recommending action on assistive technologies and a map of assistive technology programs and departmental funding responsibilities for assistive technologies for older Australians across the Federal, state and non-government sources.