Resources

This webpage from Vic Roads provides information regarding how dementia may impact ability to drive safely, and next steps.

An enabling environment will encourage a person with dementia to lead as full and independent a life as possible. ​This website from Alzheimer's WA provides practical tips, guides and resources to help make the places where we live more dementia-enabling.

This Pamphlet from Queensland Health provides contact information and guidance for specific specialties which a person living with dementia may want to consider reaching out to.

People diagnosed with dementia, their care partners, and family and friends can find it hard to come to terms with a dementia diagnosis This tool from Queensland Health provides an algorithm to guide the care GPs provide to a person once they have received a diagnosis of dementia.

Theis Pamphlet from Queensland Health details the types of clinicians and organisations that someone with a recent diagnosis may wish to contact in relation to a number of commonly experienced issues.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding talking to your doctor about emotional changes, aggression, catastrophic reactions, intimacy and sexuality, support for carers, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding loss of appetite, overeating or insatiable appetite, sweet cravings, mouth, chewing and swallowing problems, problems eating at the table, other meal-time strategies, support for family and caregivers, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding planning ahead for dementia care, decisions about medical treatment for dementia, getting help with decisions about medical treatment, money matters, enduring power of attorney, wills, guardianship and administration, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding laws about driving and dementia, reactions of people when they must stop driving, signs that driving ability is impacted, talking to a person about driving, support for families and carers, travelling with a person with dementia as a passenger, and where to get help.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will develop your knowledge about specific types of dementia and potential underlying changes in the brain.