Resources

This helpsheet provides ideas to help your First Nations family member feel more at home in aged care and keep connection with family, community and country.

This guide aims to further enhance occupational therapy clinical practice provided to people living with dementia and their care partners.

These guidelines have been provided to ensure that people with dementia who live in remote communities are correctly diagnosed and receive the services that they, and their families, require.

This help sheet lists some of the important aspects of good care for people with dementia who are living in residential aged care homes, including the involvement of relatives and friends.

This booklet is designed for you to obtain as much information as possible relating to your family member’s care needs, so that the care provided by you at home can be continued as closely as possible by others.

This resource is designed to help you in your decision-making about respite by providing you with information from the carer’s perspective. In here you will find stories about carers and their experiences of respite care, as well as advice and tips to help you make the most of your respite experience.

Physical activity is any movement made by skeletal muscles in your body that uses energy. This includes any incidental activity you might do during the day like doing the housework, and any planned physical activity, like exercise. This sheet contains practical tips on beneficial activity levels, how to stay motivated, and key information sources.

This booklet provides information about gardening and dementia, including dementia and garden environments, gardens that heal, garden implementation process, dementia-specific gardens, and basic garden design ideas.

This video focuses on Friends in Harmony, a dementia friendly choir run by Alzheimer’s WA.

This webpage is for people with dementia, carers, and health professionals. It provides information, helpful strategies, and tools to improve communication of the dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic support.