Resources

This booklet provides information for families and carers looking for specialised dementia care support services. The booklet includes an overview of program eligibility and referral requirements and where to go to for further dementia support.

The information in this booklet has been prepared to help you as a family member, or partner of a person who lives in residential aged care understand about sexuality, what it means and how and why it might still be important to them.

Sean’s Story is the result of conversations between Sean Kelly, who lives with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Deborah Moore, a Dementia Consultant with the Dementia Centre.

This booklet is for families who have a loved one living in an aged care facility. Each person’s experience of caring for someone with dementia will be different but everyone experiences difficult moments.

Everyone in Australia should prepare for natural disasters. If you are a carer of someone with dementia, you need to think carefully about how best to help them and protect both of you from harm. The Carer Ready Guide can help you think about these issues.

An Australian guidebook for facilitators to introduce Australian content into cognitive stimulation therapy sessions.

This manual has been designed to assist primary carers to prepare resources to enable clear communication about their family member’s unique care needs, to care staff of any facility where care is required for their family member. This may include a brief stay at a respite care facility; or a short hospital admission.

This guide is for family carers providing care for a person with dementia. It includes practical information about how to deal with the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Describes recommendations from people living with dementia and their families/carers regarding the new aged care quality standards.

Describes how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted/be impacting the physical, social, and mental well-being of people living with dementia, and their families/carers.