Resources
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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Care planning checklist
This checklist serves as a guide for service providers to carry out an effective patient centred and goal oriented care plan.
Looking after yourself while looking after someone with dementia
This guide has information about the meaning of wellness and many handy strategies to help you improve your wellness and increase your resilience.
Living with dementia
Information for people living with dementia regarding living well with dementia, the importance of staying connected, accepting support, processing the diagnosis, safety and independence, accessing support, and validating and acknowledging death.
LGBTI fact sheets
There is a need for greater, targeted support for LGBTI people with dementia from all care contexts, requiring service providers to be better informed in the additional considerations relevant to the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in this group. The Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration provides multiple resources about the LGBTQIA+ community.
Lewy body disease information for home care workers
This sheet is designed to give you some basic information about Lewy body disease and its associated disorders. It will help you understand what is happening in the home that you are visiting. It also gives you some tips so that you can assist both the client and their carer.
Lewy body disease information for community respite workers
This sheet is designed to give you some basic information about Lewy body disease and its associated disorders. It will help you understand what is happening to the person being considered for your service. It also gives you some tips so that you can assist both the client and their carer.
Lewy body disease information for care facilities
This sheet is designed to give you some basic information about Lewy body disease and its associated disorders. It also gives you some tips so that you can assist both the resident and their carer to accept and enjoy their new environment.
Australian Association of Gerontology Fact Sheet 3: Australian approaches to reablement in residential aged care
This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches used for the Australian Government’s residential aged care program.
Australian Association of Gerontology Fact Sheet 2: Australian approaches to reablement in the home support and care program
This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches for the Government’s Home Support and Care Program which comprises the Commonwealth Home Support Program, the Continuity of Support Program, and Home Care Packages Program.
Informed consent: What families need to know about antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in residential aged care
This fact sheet is for families of people with dementia in residential aged care. It explains what they can do to help, including providing consent for medicines like benzodiazepines and antipsychotics.