Resources

Provides information regarding clinical context, in practice, diagnosing dementia, assessing for depression, ongoing management.

In this webinar, the panel covers what it's like for a person living with dementia during COVID-19, lessons learned from the first wave of COVID-19, strategies for caring from a person with dementia during COVID-19, and the risks of chemical restraint.

The use of antipsychotic medications in residential aged care facilities for the use of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia requires significant consideration, and the general consensus in the medical community is that their use should be reduced or avoided. The focus of this chapter is on the use of pharmacotherapy for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

These quick tips look at some ways care staff can reduce the risk of infection while keeping the person with dementia, and staff, safe while maintaining wellbeing.

This webinar will emphasise how working and communicating as part of a multidisciplinary team can empower health professionals to optimise non-pharmacological approaches in management. (*please note you must be logged in as a NPS MedicineWise member (free) to watch webinars).

This resource from Forward with Dementia provides a list of possible questions to ask your doctor after a diagnosis of dementia.

This App was developed to assist residential aged care staff working with people living with dementia to improve a number of aspects of medication use (available from the app store (Apple) or Google Play or via internet browser).

Become culturally competent in caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people with dementia.

Purposeful Activities for Dementia offers practical ways that carers – including activity support workers, personal care attendants and other aged care professionals – can work together to engage people living with dementia in purposeful activities at home and in social groups.

Information for carers regarding living well with dementia, the human experience, the importance of staying connected, accepting support, processing the diagnosis, accessing support, and validating and acknowledging death.