Resources

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Karine talks about some of her experiences caring for her husband Col, describing how she provided support for decision-making from a care-partner’s perspective. (5 min)

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Jeanette and Ray talk about their experiences in adjusting to a diagnosis of dementia, and making decisions together as a couple. (4 min)

Jason Burton discusses respite models and cottage respite at the Dementia Partnership Project Inaugural WA Community Services Symposium. (16 min)

This review from the Productivity Commission considers what works to support carers of older people with dementia to prevent or delay entry into residential aged care. It adopts a rigorous and systematic approach to identify and appraise the evidence, aiming to inform dementia policy.

In this webinar from the Older Persons Advocacy Network, the panel covers the key differences between the NDIS and Aged Care Systems, enabling informed choice, barriers and strategies to overcome accessing services and support, the benefits of being informed and making future care plans, and advocacy support. (1 h)

This fact sheet from the Australian Government Department of Health is for families of people with dementia in residential aged care. It explains what they can do to help, including providing consent for medicines like benzodiazepines and antipsychotics.

The Indigenous Aged Care Design Guide from Dementia Training Australia and Health Habitat is a resource to assist in the design, construction, ongoing assessment and maintenance of aged care facilities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This video animation from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre describes the standard model of aged care and the home-like, or cluster, model of aged care with statistics from the Australian context of dementia care. (2 min)

If you are out in public, you may need to let other people (for example the bus driver, cafe staff or receptionist) know that you, or the person you support, has dementia. This card from Forward with Dementia discretely alerts people that you may require their help and support.

The first in a series of three webinars from Dementia Training Australia exploring how a family home can be bolstered to reduce the burden of dementia, what moving house might mean, and how a new home can still be supportive (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources). (42 min)