Resources

This website provides comprehensive information about the Community Visitors Scheme, which arranges volunteer visits to older people to provide friendship and companionship. Visits are available to anyone receiving government-subsidised residential aged care or Home Care Packages.

This webpage article talks about loneliness in relation to lack of social connection, its impact and some strategies to address it.

One in 4 older people aged 65 and over lives alone. This can affect health and wellbeing. This chapter of Australia's welfare looks at two of the key issues facing older Australians: ageing and dementia.

This 2020 background paper presents a comprehensive discussion about social isolation and loneliness across population groups and also specifically among the older Australian population.

The webpage presents some background information about social isolation and loneliness and provides strategies to prevent and address loneliness.

A fact sheet providing information for aged care staff to improve services for Stolen Generations survivors.

A continuing professional development webinar featuring an interdisciplinary panel discussing how collaborative care may help support the mental health of older LGBTI people. Identifies specific needs and challenges and provides tips and strategies for responding to them.

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.

An information resource on emotional wellbeing for older people living in residential care. It provides a framework to assist and facilitate discussion and staff development about improving older people’s emotional wellbeing.

Questions and activities for people to use to encourage someone in aged care to reminisce about their past experiences.