Resources

Provides information about assistive technology including what are the benefits of assistive technology in dementia care, is assistive technology right for you, and links to specific technologies.

This handbook aims to provide both a reference point and practical resource to assist NSW Health staff to provide high-quality care with a consistent underlying approach to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Dementia is characterised by significant loss of cognitive abilities such as memory capacity, psychomotor abilities, attention, visuospatial functions, insight and executive functions. This webpage describes the impact of dementia on fitness to drive.

Build the knowledge and skills of your team with Ask Annie, a mobile app designed for self-paced microlearning. This tool provides practical tips and strategies to better support people living with dementia.

This webpage provides information about the home environment for persons living with dementia and their family/carers - including safety tips, bathroom and other rooms, in the garden (includes video).

This webinar covers the benefits of touchscreen technology and apps, how to select apps, and practical strategies for using apps.

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.

Tara recounts her first-hand experiences with medication use in older adults when she became a carer for her father who had dementia.

This short video provides practical tips about lifestyle changes to prevent the onset of dementia (available in English, Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Tamil, Greek, Vietnamese, Spanish, Italian).

This helpsheet outlines how engaging with animals can help the person with dementia express their emotions, feel validated, provide an opportunity for reminiscence and more.