Resources

This booklet is designed to help you, as a member of staff in an aged care facility, better understand and support your residents (particularly concerning people living with dementia).

This booklet explains how older people can receive support through the Short-Term Restorative Care Program (STRC).

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.

The Royal Commission recognised that considerable work needed to be undertaken before the implementation of a new aged care program. This paper describes the proposed design for the Support at Home Program to be implemented in 2023.

This booklet has been developed for aged care staff who are caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.

This booklet has been written to help you understand why it is important for you to support people with dementia to make everyday decisions. There are practical examples in this booklet of how to do this.

This fact sheet from the Australian Association of Gerontology presents case studies on reablement approaches.

This resource is designed to help you in your decision-making about respite by providing you with information from the carer’s perspective. In here you will find stories about carers and their experiences of respite care, as well as advice and tips to help you make the most of your respite experience.

This booklet provides information about gardening and dementia, including dementia and garden environments, gardens that heal, garden implementation process, dementia-specific gardens, and basic garden design ideas.

This booklet features information, tips and strategies on staying connected to people living with dementia.