Resources

Pharmacist and researcher Dr Emily Reeve speaks about the importance of deprescribing medications, particularly as people age and accumulate multiple medication prescriptions. She talks about tools and guides to be developed to support clinicians in undertaking and understanding the process.

This brochure equips you with the ability to have an informed and active role in your decisions about what medications you take. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese)

Outlines the reasons for or causes of distress in people with dementia and suggests strategies to prevent or eliminate these underlying factors.

This booklet equips you with the ability to have an informed and active role in your decisions about what medications you take. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).

This helpsheet may be useful once it has been medically confirmed that the person with dementia is in the process of dying.

In this series of videos, Professor Lynn Chenoweth from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales discusses the theories behind changed behaviours seen in dementia and describes possible models for assessment and techniques for management, including real-world examples.

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.

Advance care planning is about planning for future health and personal care. It gives a person the opportunity to plan for what they want, if they were unable to say it for themselves. This factsheet is about advance care planning and dementia.

A Better Visit is a free-to-download app featuring a range of two-player games designed to enhance communication and facilitate positive social interactions between people with dementia and their visitors.