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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Post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia care
This helpsheet outlines what a post-traumatic stress disorder is, treatments, and key tips for caring for a person with both dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Physical exercise and dementia
This information sheet outlines the role that physical exercise can play in reducing the risk of developing dementia and the benefits it offers to people with dementia.
Pain and dementia
This sheet provides information about appropriate assessment and management of pain in people with dementia.
Other conditions with dementia: What to ask your doctor
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.
Navigating dementia support
Information regarding navigating dementia support, help at home, respite care, support groups, deciding on residential care, models of care, understanding wellbeing, and domains of well-being.
Medication: It's your choice (brochure)
This brochure equips you with the ability to have an informed and active role in your decisions about what medications you take. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese)
Medicines and dementia: strategies to address distress
Outlines the reasons for or causes of distress in people with dementia and suggests strategies to prevent or eliminate these underlying factors.
Managing symptoms of terminal agitation
This helpsheet may be useful once it has been medically confirmed that the person with dementia is in the process of dying.
Advance care planning and dementia: Making a decision for someone
Advance care planning is about planning for future health and personal care. It gives a person the opportunity to plan for what they want, if they were unable to say it for themselves. This factsheet is about advance care planning and dementia.