Resources

Each day there are many things that provide us with purpose and pleasure. For a person with dementia, the need for a good quality of life is not diminished. This webpage provides guidance for planning appropriate activities for people living with dementia.

Music is said to have a powerful and unique role in dementia care, enhancing quality of life for people living with dementia and their carers. This webpage provides information about the use of music in dementia.

Provides tips regarding how to set up a home to help a person with dementia find their way around/stay connected to the present.

This webpage provides information about medicines and dementia, including resources, distress, strategies to manage distress, medicines to manage distress symptoms, treatment, decision-making rights, other conditions with dementia, medicines-related problems for people with dementia, and tips for good medicine management (includes video).

Provides information about behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, including about reassuring and reducing triggers, wandering, sundowning, anxiety or agitation, aggression, hallucinations or false ideas, disinhibited behaviour, and pharmacological treatment. Resource from: Dementia Australia

These sections contain information, tools and helpful strategies used by people with dementia.